Haley Leopold, a Language Arts teacher at Springhouse Community School, recently posted a question on the Floyd Group’s Facebook page. She was looking for someone to talk to her class about spoken word, poetry readings and slams, someone who knows something about writing the kind of poetry that asks ‘Who am I’ and ‘Who am […]
My grandmother hid her brogue the way I insert R’s where they used to not exist in a Rebel South where folks say “y’all” and I say “you guys” when I let down my guard My grandmother couldn’t hide her Irish temper She taught it to my father who thought its harshness would make us […]
-Coming Soon ‘Where I’m From’ Poetry at Springhouse Community School ________________Shadow Shot Sunday
1. What to remember when waking: I try not to put demands on the day or dictate my thoughts. I don’t want the first thing I remember in the morning to be the last thing I worried about the night before. 2. In 2007 I posted THIS video in a 13 Thursday list with the […]
– Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday
Some die of natural causes They drift to the ground and close their eyes Leaving their perfectly unmarked bodies scattered like the photographs of my ancestors I collect the ones that look familiar I write their obituaries and bury them in books or lay them out on the kitchen table like old lace doilies at […]
Shadow Shot Sunday / The outside of the silo might surprise you. See HERE.
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on September 15. 2016. A field of Beatles fans sang along to all their favorites at Abbey Road Live’s concert at Chantilly Farm Saturday evening, September 10. From Athens, Georgia, the band was introduced as “one of the world’s premier Beatles cover bands.” The outdoor concert […]
1. Life has gotten so much more complicated now that Facebook has emojis. I’m pretty sure I have a touch of aspergers syndrome because I don’t understand all their facial expressions. 2. I’m starting to want THIS for Christmas. 3. It’s a gift to have to put my glasses on while sunbathing in the yard […]
–Wordless Wednesday
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on September 15, 2016. When Sharon Lambert is asked where she’s from, she laughs and answers, “Everywhere.” Originally from Mississippi and in-between homes in Texas and Tennessee, Lambert is currently on the road full-time with her fellow Sisters on the Fly, an outdoor adventure group of more […]
