~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 30, 2013. By Monday, May 20th, word had spread near and far that longtime Floyd resident Rio Semione had passed away suddenly in her Weddle Street home on Saturday evening. Friends began bringing flowers, creating a memorial tribute on her front porch. Many had […]
1. I think THIS home movie of my grandsons Bryce and Liam is a good ad for the arts, drawing and dancing, what could be more fun? 2. I love to dance and when I go out dancing I like to dance next to people who also love to dance because it raises my game, […]
Jasmine blossom pinned to black satin in a gown of sequined sky Colleen Redman _____________dVerse Poets Pub
~ The following first appeared in the spring issue of It’s All About Her, a regional newspaper insert magazine. When Karen Day relocated to Floyd from Greenville, North Carolina, in 2005, she and her husband, McCabe Coolidge, settled in a remote part of the county, living in a rustic cabin off the Blue Ridge Parkway. […]
An Eye for Iris A Heart Line A Butter Lover For the Love of Nectar ________#1 Shadow Shot Sunday
I have always loved pinwheels, and after seeing the Big Log video with Robert Plant in the early 80’s, I was especially hooked. I buy them whenever I see them, give them to my grandkids and put them in my garden. So it was no big surprise that when our friend Rio passed away on […]
1. Have I mentioned that I have a stalker? He’s someone from high school that I didn’t know existed back then. His obsession with me (and one of my girlfriends) is mostly inactive now, although on my birthday last week a family member reported that someone they know saw him and he knew it was […]
I have a fantasy poetry shift. It lasts at least an hour every day. I imagine that I have to stop, take pen and notebook in hand, and see if I can make something out of nothing. I do it lying on the couch, like a therapy session, because, for me, writing poetry is a […]
Stretched out on a sofa like a page waiting for poems I try to will the right words to appear to fill the time with meaning to justify my life A Staples pen in one hand a Dollar Store notebook in the other I’m poised for work resisting the urge to get up and see […]
~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 15, 2013 The third annual Auto Fair & Swap Meet took place on Chantilly Farm Saturday and Sunday to the tune of Low Rider, Mustang Sally and other classic car songs that played on the fair’s sound system. Car enthusiasts from all over Virginia […]
Floyd Friday Night Jamboree _____________________Shadow Shot Sunday
I still get a few cards for my birthday but mostly I get Facebook wishes and bouquets of virtual flowers in emails. These days, I get more excited about my grandson’s birthday, three days before mine, and his birthday parties are about all the excitement I can take! This year it was held at Pump […]
