1. I experienced brain freeze for the first time recently when the power went out and I had to wash my hair with cold well water. 2. Best review of the book Fifty Shades of Gray, posted by a Facebook friend: I just read a few pages and I gotta say that I just don’t […]
Spinning summer tutu a short sassy muumuu with flowers so real that goats want to eat them with a skirt so full it can carry yellow squash and beans from the garden for canning ___________________ dVerse poets pub HERE.
The following first appeared in the spring issue of All About HER, a regional magazine newspaper insert. “When you understand how food can be used to work for you, amazing things can happen,” says Lynise Anderson of the Healing Tree Wellness Center in Floyd. Anderson is a doctor of naturopathic medicine, a tradition that emphasizes […]
I’m just sorry I missed the watermelon seed spitting contest. Look for photos of this second Town Jubilee event in this week’s Floyd Press.
My corn is happy. Sunday Shadow Shot
It’s been hot.
1. Every time I watch the PBS Newshour I feel like messing up Margaret Warner’s hair-do. 2. Raining poems? It doesn’t happen every day. Look HERE. 3. What’s the difference between a slurpie and a slushie? 4. I think the makers of word processing software should create a poet’s program option in which the first […]
Cutting down trees, splitting them for posts and digging holes are all in day’s work for building a fence around our garden. Watch some of the action below. I wonder if the above video clip on splitting a locust tree with hand tools will be half as popular as the older video I posted on […]
Poetry is the ugly step-daughter of prose the awkward duckling becoming a swan It doesn’t know who it is or where it belongs until it flies from the flock and risks being unacceptable Poetry has no ego It goes barefoot to the ball It doesn’t need a Prince Charming or to ask, ‘who’s […]
The potato salad and coleslaw was a bit over-sweetened, and I ordered a Flat Tire instead of a Fat Tire like I used to order New Balance when I meant to say New Castle. I had come from doing care-providing across the county and had on the wrong shoes for dancing. Actually, I had on […]
Shadow Shot Sunday
The putt putt golf was cute and I was happy to see that the Floyd Democratic Party was passing out Flaccaventto bumper stickers and buttons, but this solar-run generator created by Rick Brown of Floyd’s SolShine Energy Alternatives really piqued my excitement. After a full week and still counting of being without power and running […]
