Everybody wanted to get their picture taken with two week old Pearl. Or touch Cara’s pregnant belly. Throughout the ‘90s many Floyd women gathered each summer at the Indian Valley Retreat Center for Women’s Wellness Week – a woman’s retreat focused on ceremony, making art, the healing arts and self discovery. WWW was founded by […]
Put a “Do Not Disturb” sign over the forest Hang an “Out of Order” sign on the White House door Proceed with caution Yield to your conscience Handle the whole world with care – The above poem, written for the New Year 2004 when George W. Bush was in office. It was a featured “Poem […]
__________Shadow Shot Sunday
– The following first appeared in the November 10, 2016 issue of The Floyd Press. Some remember Liz Stucki as the co-owner of Mama Lizardos, a popular restaurant that was once located in downtown Floyd. Others remember her as the woman who hosted an open house Thanksgiving dinner at the VFW for years, or the […]
1. On Wednesday, I pulled up the covers and took a sick day. 2. America, I don’t recognize you. 3. The election caused Canada’s immigration site to crash, the Dow to fall lower than it had after 9/11 and my jaw to drop. 4. “This is not just an election, this is an American Rorschach inkblot […]
We use to wear coats in November and October was the red carpet celebrity of Fall Now the spread of red creeps slowly in November and the glimmer of gold turns quickly to rust _______Our World Tuesday
I stopped at a Department Store, looking for a leopard-skin pill-box hat to wear to the Bob Dylan concert in Roanoke Saturday night, but they didn’t have one, and he didn’t sing that song. He did sing Tangled Up in Blue, Don’t Think Twice and Baby Blue. I hardly recognized those classics at first because […]
My knee wore down with bone-to-bone pain with no cushion to soften the friction like my mother and sister both had bad knees invisible irritations they quietly carried How did my sister hook me a 5 x 12 foot rug while suffering with carpal tunnel in her hands? How did my elderly mother cook and clean […]
_____Shadow Shot Sunday
We sang four birthday songs to Alwyn for her 90th birthday, celebrated on a sunny November afternoon in her home at Warm Hearth Village, a local retirement community. There were a couple of deliveries of flowers, and friends, some of whom I hadn’t seen since her 85th, filled her living room and kitchen, and spilled […]
1. At a birthday party over the weekend I had some beet pie. 2. I know a woman named Heather who changed her name to Winter. “Well you’ve got two seasons covered. You only need two more names,” I told her. 3. It’s too late for Woodstock / but not for that leopard-skin pillbox-hat / […]
Yeah, they taste good roasted. / Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday
