1. Poetry is a condensed form of expression that doesn’t follow the rules of prose like a dream isn’t limited by reality. 2. While watching Yellow Submarine with 5-year-old grandson Liam, he says, “Paul looks like a girl.” 3. Liam to Hopa Joe: When you’re 100 you’ll probably be dead. Hopa: Can I still love […]
Bride white moon down an aisle of night A reception line of stars sweeps her train of sheer light _________Colleen Redman / Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
-The following are photos and captions from events that I recently covered for our local paper. The new owners of New Mountain Mercantile, Judy MacPhail (formerly of A Company of Crafters at The Station) and Nancy Bell (right), enjoyed a steady flow of traffic during the store’s recent soft opening. Store owners will carry on the […]
Happy Easter! / Shadow Shot Sunday
-The above first appeared in The Floyd Press on March 17, 2016. Rick Cooley was remembered in a memorial service as a gentle soul and a gifted artist whose legacy will live on in Floyd County and far beyond. Cooley – a longtime Check resident, originally from Indiana – passed away from Lymphoma on February […]
1. “It’s a bench. I feel like I’m in court! – Colleen to Joe, upon seeing that our neighbor’s swing chair overlooking our favorite mountain view was replaced with a bench. 2. The crocus circus has come and gone and now it’s time for the daffodils, which I have referred to in the past as […]
Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday
– The above first appeared in The Floyd Press newspaper on March 17, 2016. Three Democratic candidates running against Republican Congressman Morgan Griffith in the Ninth District spoke at a Floyd County Democrats Meet and Greet Monday evening. Addressing a group of about 30 people at the Bank of Floyd Community Room were Bill Bunch, […]
I’m nostalgic for pens like the one that wrote purple when I kept a note going to my girlfriend all week When I wrote cursive in high school about a boy named Richard Dear Diary, my brother is a jerk I’m nostalgic for pencils that erased mistakes that were chewed on in math class and […]
He’s Four! _______Shadow Shot Sunday / Our World Tuesday
1. Favorite REM line and the story of my life: Oh no, I’ve said too much. Followed by: I haven’t said enough. 2. So I had a couple of curlers on the top of my head while getting ready to go out dancing when Joe came in and looked at me and I joked, “I’m […]
