In the first 100 days I’ve read more than 100 stories about corruption, collusion incompetence and lies I’ve tried to explain a president who insults people to my grandsons and played out thoughts of nuclear war I’ve been heartbroken and rudely awakened thinking about uninsured sick people dying and the little North Korean refugee who […]
-The following is a piece I was commissioned to write about Floyd for Real Small Towns. Where else but in Floyd can you learn from an old-timer how to forage ginseng one day and then meet Wavy Gravy – the Woodstock clown with an ice-cream flavor named after him – in town for FloydFest the next? I […]
1. She wanted her ex-husband to die with a happy thought, so she told him Trump had been impeached. More HERE. 2. I can’t help but wonder what I could do with all the time I spend waiting for my credit card chip to go through or waiting for my electric hair curler to curl. […]
Packing a Suitcase for the Afterlife is a poetry memoir by Colleen Redman that is being published by Finishing Line Press (FLP), an award winning small press out of Georgetown, Kentucky. Redman writes and provides photography for The Floyd Press newspaper in Floyd, Virginia, and other regional publications. Her poetry has been published nationally, regionally, […]
He told me he was 71 and I was ready to believe him because he’s so young at heart. The party was held at the Zion Lutheran Church where Dick was a minister for many years. He’s a well-loved member of the Floyd community and was surrounded by loving attention. There were sing-a-longs, a serenade […]
You dream about a layover and drinking tea at a café that’s like your teenage hangout but different There’s a stranger you want to impress and your bags have all been lost You’re trying not to panic because you forgot to claim them But then they come opened and spilled with everything strewn in every […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on April 20, 2017 Senator Tim Kaine received a warm welcome at a Meet & Greet Saturday evening at Dogtown Roadhouse. Kaine had just come from a hike and was in town to attend the memorial dedication for the lives lost during the April 17, 2007 shootings […]
1. Everybody looks better with flowers, even Steve Bannon. See HERE. 2. The first protest in space just happened, and it was against Donald Trump. Thanks to the Autonomous Space Agency Network (yes that’s NASA backwards). The team printed out a giant tweet from their own Twitter account, which read “Look at That, You Son of […]
After the Impressionists in the Garden exhibit, we spotted our friend Donna Polseno’s vase in another room at the Taubman Museum. Across from it was a painting by Ray Kass, who I met at my friend Alwyn’s last birthday party and who did the painting that hangs over her couch, which I admire whenever I […]
This is the lavender pathway that I slipped and sunk into, living for a few seconds in the scene, walking behind the mother and child, breathing in the flowers that were nearby. And these are the peonies that that made me swoon and sigh. Ever since I saw some Facebook photos of the Chagall exhibit […]
____Shadow Shot Sunday
1. I told my grandsons that being afraid can be a good thing, a signal to pay attention to something that could be dangerous. Then Liam (6) told me that the characters in a movie that are too brave are usually also dumb. So, we talked about the difference between being brave and being cocky. […]
