It finally happened. We had a girl in the house, our ten-year-old niece Catherine who was visiting with her family for a day, and she actually played with my dollhouse. I didn’t know it at the time, but a few days later when I went into the spare room where she had slept, I discovered […]
1. “Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty” is today’s “Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life” and was coined in 1982 by the writer Anne Herbet when she wrote it on a placemat at a restaurant. 2. If you love it set it free HERE. 3. Me (responding to […]
Sometimes I give myself a poemwork assignment to fill an empty notebook page I hunker down with pen in hand imagining that I’ll see poetry the way I see hidden pictures in 3D art when I take my gaze off the obvious When I trust that a poem already exists just below the surface and […]
My Ten-year-old home-schooled niece Catherine is braver than me when it comes to catching chickens. She can speak German and Latin and write her name in Korean. She may win contests for Irish step dancing and solve math equations that I can not. But I can still beat her at hula-hooping! ___Our World Tuesday
– The following first appeared with a larger selection of photos in the June 4, 2015 issue of The Floyd Press. Floyd County High School (FCHS) Principal Tony Deibler spoke to the 2015 graduating class about what it means to be awesome. “If you can be involved in something larger than yourself to improve […]
Laser or Taser? A Heart Escape _______Shadow Shot Sunday / Wordless Wednesday
1. I’ve just now started watching Mad Men, the award winning series about an ad agency in 1960. It’s appealing in a period piece way, the way Downton Abby is to so many. While watching recently, I thought to myself, oh, so that’s what Bewitched’s Darren was doing when Samanatha was home being a housewife. […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 28, 2015. Floyd’s first Lyme Symposium took place May 16th at the EcoVillage. Organized by Margie Scott, the “Tick Talks” educational event drew over 100 attendees. Scott, who heads up the Floyd County Lyme Disease (LD) Support Network, said people came from all over the […]
Some graduates also wore flips flops at Sunday’s 2015 Floyd County High School Graduation. Many painted sparkling art scenes on the back of their graduation caps. At the parking lot reception some cans of colored string were sprayed and gunpowder poppers went off in celebration. Graduations remind me of weddings. Everyone is dressed in their Sunday […]
