-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on December 15, 2016 When Henrik Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House, was first performed in Denmark in 1879, it was considered controversial. Audiences reacted to the play’s conclusion with so much outrage that the playwright wrote an alternate ending. At the Floyd Community Theatre Guild’s opening […]
1. It’s surprising that we don’t live in a city, considering all the events available to us in this one stoplight town. After Winterfest and the Festival of Trees, we saw a local play with a Christmas theme, went to a Gingerbread Ball and then a German Christmas Cocktail Party. 2. The real reason that […]
_______Wordless Wednesday
-The following is from my spread on Winterfest, Floyd’s 22rd annual Art and Craft Festival at the Floyd Center for the Arts. These and others first appeared in The Floyd Press on December 8, 2016 See photos of Winterfest’s Festival of Trees HERE. / Our World Tuesday
Pricked at birth The sting still hurts Now my stiffened knee is loosening Now one tear falls for two losses A mirror speck that holds the past The tear my mother couldn’t shed The one my sister couldn’t hold back It swelled then slipped like a clean drop of rain Like a gem of […]
____Shadow Shot Sunday
1. Favorite line seen on Facebook this week: Feeling uncomfortable with all these Mondays we’ve let into the country. –Floyd author Neil Sagebiel 2. Trying to put life into written words is like trying to pin the tail on the donkey while blindfolded. And sometimes we break piñatas. 3. You cried wolf / Now you […]
-The following is a selection of my photos that first appeared in The Floyd Press on December 1, 2016. _______Wordless Wednesday
-Look for more Festival of Trees photos in an upcoming issue of The Floyd Press and pictures of Winterfest in this week’s paper. At the close of 22nd annual Winterfest Arts and Crafts Festival, attendees gathered in the Festival of Trees room to see if their silent auction bids won them a tree. The trees […]
You cried wolf Now you got one Pandora’s Box can’t be re-locked There is no hiding in sheep’s clothing The little pig’s house is coming down Red Riding Hood is left in the woods The blood of democracy has been drawn The bite is always worse than the bark and wolves scenting power travel in […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on December 1, 2016. Jody Rose and Tom Franko recently exchanged rings for their 30th wedding anniversary at the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Considered an architectural wonder, the shimmering white marble “crown palace” is the embodiment of a love story. It was built in the mid […]
1. Last week I wrote that, because of Facebook, it felt like I had 100 people in my house. Over the 16 Hands long weekend Studio Tour that was actually true. 2. I realized just how small our house is when, during the Saturday 16 Hands Tour, our two downstairs rooms-turned-galleries were as full as […]
