– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 7, 2014 Floydfest’s first fashion show, Style Revolution, was a showcase of organic fashion and handcrafted designs provided by artisans from the festival’s Vendor Village. The dramatic presentation – held under the Global Village’s futuristic-styled tent Friday and Saturday night – was themed around […]
We were encouraged to wear hats for the vintage-styled wedding of our dear ones, Leia and Orion. It was a good thing too, because of the overcast and drizzle. “The next best thing to a wig,” I told my friend Chris, who just happens to be from England. “You can just put it on and […]
Maybe because I’d never been at the Blacksburg duck pond before afternoon, I didn’t know that the ducks lay around like litter, with their heads tucked into their balled-up bodies and their eyes closed. The game Duck Duck Goose came to mind. They looked like stepping stone rocks or shopkeepers on siesta, or at least […]
1. I thought of my six-year-old grandson Bryce (who got confused by the Great Oaks pool bathrooms that were marked M for mermaids and P for pirates) when I went to the bathroom at Mickey G’s Bistro yesterday. The ladies room there is marked with a picture of Audrey Hepburn and the men’s room has […]
Wordless Wednesday
These were taken recently at Floyd’s Villa Appalaccia Winery where I had my favorite glass of wine, Raspberry Cab. The hummingbirds were too fast for the camera. Our World Tuesday______
Poetry writes its own music but doesn’t sing to the choir It doesn’t lip sync or use stunt doubles It won’t do reality TV Poetry walks a red carpet but never in high heels It doesn’t flaunt cleavage or make acceptance speeches It doesn’t give interviews Poetry’s not followed by the paparazzi but sometimes it […]
~ The following was published in the spring issue of About HER, a regional news magazine. Susan Icove’s maternal grandfather ran a junk yard and her paternal grandfather ran a lighting business, so it’s not surprising that the former potter and graphic designer ended up making one-of-a- kind lamps out of junk. “It’s all about […]
