Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. – Robert Frost I’m suspicious of happy because it rhymes with sappy It often follows slap and rarely lasts It reminds me of jolly which rhymes with folly makes me think of giddy which I think of as being followed by up ___________Colleen Redman__________dVerse Poets Pub
Take your pants off Before you fight. – Yoko Ono I’m shocked that it took me so long to visit the Taubman Museum of Art, just down the mountain in Roanoke. We (a couple of close friends and I) went for the last day of the Yoko Ono Imagine Peace exhibit, an interactive, mostly retrospective […]
Classic black fills an ample pot Tea-ball chain dangles like a necklace on the Queen _____________Shadow Shot Sunday
Stink Bug Makes a New Year Resolution Stink Bug Does Yoga Read more about stink bugs HERE.
1. I got a new Van Gogh calendar in our Christmas Eve neighborhood Yankee Swap. I knew I needed a calendar and was determined not to get taken in by pretty wrapping and end up with something I couldn’t use, so I stole (part of the rules) from someone else for the first time. 2. […]
I try to time the toasting of the morning sprouted bagel so that the butter doesn’t melt before the eggs are boiled The tea should still be hot before the eggs have cooled down before their gold is spread like wealth on the new day’s wheel of fortune A pen should be nearby and notebook […]
~ The following 2013 review was done by excerpting the first line or few in one post from each month last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January: I’m pretty sure it was a Floyd first, a Mardi Gras inspired parade from the Gardner Funeral Home into […]
~ The following appeared in The Floyd Press on January 2, 2014 The Young Actors Co-op (YAC) presented their latest production, Tales of the Windship, with three shows on December 13, 14 and 15th. Performed at June Bug’s Black Box Theater, the play was written by Fengar Gael in narrative style and incorporated folktales from […]
I can’t say that I’ve made any New Year resolutions, but I think this New Year’s Eve picture of me surrounded by butterflies and wearing a crown kind of says it all. Happy New Year!
1. Me to Joe, at the movie theater, wearing 3D glasses to see The Hobbit: “You look like a bad ass.” He answers, “And you look like Jackie O.” 2. Poems tell more than they say. They convey, as if mutely, the condition of the mind that made them, and this is a large part […]
We watched the ball drop at the bar, over fish tacos and beer, but that was after we had danced two sets straight without sitting down. The Kind at The Pine Tavern is a New Year’s tradition in Floyd. The band has a dedicated following, or should I say dead-icated, since they play mostly Grateful […]
