1. I wonder if our Floyd Christmas Parade T-Rex is related to THIS one? 2. I couldn’t get enough of T-Rex, so I followed him/her around, getting more shots than any other parade character or scene (400 shots but only 33 submitted to the paper). I watched it put a kid’s head in its mouth. […]
-This review of my poetry collection, along with a small selection of my poems from the book, is in the current issue of Floyd County Moonshine, which features one of my photographs on the cover. Colleen Redman’s new chapbook from Finishing Line Press, Packing a Suitcase for the Afterlife, is an intriguing collection. The […]
_______Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday
I tried to tell the AEP powerline guys who were clearing the lines and cutting trees in our yard that they needed to haul the logs out by Thursday because I had hundreds of people coming to my house over the weekend. I don’t think they believed me, but it was true. On Friday people […]
A table setting fit for a queen. Let the Thanksgiving feasting begin. We thanked the farmers and cooks and cleaned our plates like good pilgrims. We usually play Taboo after dinner, but this time we had a dance party. We earned our pie. Ryder and Pearl got a new uncle. Pearl says ‘It’s all gravy’ […]
1. “Later today you are going to do something, something you don’t know about yet. Yet somehow, it’s already happened. Somehow, it’s already affected you…” So begins an article about the work of one of the most respected, senior and widely published professors of psychology, Daryl Bem of Cornell, who has just published an article […]
The world is our front yard,” said the driver of this two-story bus, which he referred to as a pop-up gallery. “We’re on a fine arts tour across the nation,” said his wife, the artist. The couple, who attended the Floyd Center for the Arts Community Show opening, were traveling with their two young daughters […]
The sunlight is bright I can see to thread the needle Always moving buttons over to make something fit Always taking in the excess and shortening the length stitching childhood together with famous last words I don’t make something new but make do with what is I sew backwards to go forward and feel every […]
A Puppet Show Preview ____Shadow Shot Sunday
1. I’ve gotten to the point where I think believing that psychics are contacting my lost loved ones is like believing that wrinkle creams work. 2. But then there is THIS. 3. My seven-year-old grandson Liam: I know how to spell Oh. “O.” 4. The Youngbloods was one of the bands that epitomized the ‘60s […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on November 2, 2017. “I’m running on a platform that starts with a foundation of revitalizing and rebuilding our economy,” said Anthony Flaccavento. The Abingdon farmer, author, small business owner and sustainable economic development consultant is seeking the 2018 Democratic nomination for Virginia’s 9th Congressional District. He […]
The Youngbloods was one of the bands that epitomized the ‘60s music experience for me. I bought their records, and my sister Sherry and I saw them in concert at The Boston Music Hall in the early ‘70s. After the band broke up I followed Jessie Colin Young’s, the lead singer’s solo career. Everyone knows […]
