Did they have a Neil Young Tribute just so they could write “Tonight’s the Night” on a poster? Actually, the concert was called “Heart of Gold” and took place Friday night at Dogtown Roadhouse to benefit SustainFloyd, a local environmental group focused on sustainable local economy. The local musicians that came together for the event […]
________Shadow Shot Sunday
1. 12” of snow and no power on Sunday, but you don’t need generator to do THIS. 2. I’m reading Rod Stewart’s memoir. He has a whole chapter on his spikey hair. “It’s what I have in common with the Queen: both of us have had more or less the same hairstyle for the last […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on March 24, 2018. “Folk music is a voice of the people,” said Jim Sharkey during his St. Patrick’s Day house concert at Bella La Vita Inn in Floyd. It was the fifth time that the singer-songwriter has performed at the award-winning Inn, where he has built […]
Aka: 12 inches of snow and no power _____Our World Tuesday
Last ember of night unshaken by storm A warm and enduring kindle for dawn ________Colleen Redman / Poet United
“Designed by architect Yann Weymouth, the Salvador Dali museum building combines the rational with the fantastical: a simple rectangle with 18-inch thick hurricane-proof walls out of which erupts a large free-form geodesic glass bubble known as the “enigma”. The Enigma, which is made up of 1,062 triangular pieces of glass, stands 75 feet at its […]
1. Over the weekend, we had brunch with some visiting family members at The Parkway Grille. It was so good and we ate so much that someone in the group called it “blinner,” meaning a combination of breakfast, lunch and dinner. 2. Meanwhile, with all the snow we’ve had so far this March, my friend […]
I got disorientated after viewing all the surreal art with double images, optical illusions and symbolism at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. With names like Exploding Raphaelesque Head, The Hallucinogenic Toreador, Portrait of My Dead Brother and The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, I’m not surprised that by the time we ordered […]
I keep having to count and recount How many are we now? The math equals orphans like laundry on a line with no clothespins to hold us Now I am the oldest but 3rd in the line and separated by one from the other five Divided by death times who we miss with a common […]
‘Looks like you’re at a party,’ my son Josh texted after I sent him a picture of Joe and me in front of the scene in the picture above. I wanted to see if he, an artist, could guess where we were. Next, I sent him bigger clue, a picture of Dale Chihuly, the world […]
1. Colleen to Joe at the start of our beach vacation: Is it all gravy or groovy from here? 2. Ola or Aloha? 3. I brought a book to read on the beach but was too busy reading the sky, watching birds and people. 4. I got a sunburn my first day HERE. 5. Said […]
