1. This is not a yard ornament. Stop Thief! 2. Something funny involving a bunny HERE. 3. Cannibals are scarier than zombies because they do or have actually existed. 4. I’m so tempted to hit the Publish button on an empty blog post and then say, “I can’t remember what I was going to say […]
Anthony Flaccavento is campaigning for the 2018 Democratic nomination for Virginia’s 9th Congressional District, the seat that Democrat Rick Boucher held for more than two decades and that Republican Morgan Griffith now holds. On May 20th, the Abington farmer, author, small business owner and sustainable economic development consultant cut the ribbon at a Campaign Headquarters […]
I pour through every picture like an eye-witness at a line-up Ruling out the usual suspects Looking for proof of concept The winners mix with losers and all start to look alike They pile up like cold cases forgotten files on desktops that don’t do the world justice __________Colleen Redman / Poets United / Imaginary Gardens […]
I was really proud of myself for being able to dance and sing along with the lyrics during Morgan Wade & the Stepbrothers’s recent hometown show at Dogtown. Some of her songs from her new album, Puppets with my Heart, are like anthems to me now, like Songs I Won’t Remember. It was the tail […]
1. This is my 653rd Thirteen Thursday. For someone who is not very disciplined or big on practices, it’s been quite a practice. 2. I like that whirl rhymes with twirl and swirl and blur rhymes with whir and stir. 3. I got my first humorous old person card on my birthday last week. 4. THIS […]
–In 2015 I contributed a chapter to Floyd Folks: Collective Wisdom from a (One Stoplight) Mountain Community, a collection of stories about love, loss and triumph from eighteen local writers. Published by Tommy Bailey’s Free Range Press, all proceeds after printing have gone to local non-profits. This is Part 2 of my contribution. Part 1 is HERE. When […]
–In 2015 I contributed a chapter to Floyd Folks: Collective Wisdom from a (One Stoplight) Mountain Community, a collection of stories about love, loss and triumph from eighteen local writers. Published by Tommy Bailey’s Free Range Press, all proceeds after printing have gone to local non-profits. Here is Part One of the chapter I contributed. […]
Time to weed the poem to plant a row of words to turn the phrases that bloom the colors to follow the root to the source of truth for the sustenance of the soul _____Colleen Redman / Poets United
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 10, 2018. About 30 vendors presented their artisan wares at the 1st annual Mayfaire Arts and Crafts festival, hosted by The Floyd Center for the Arts May 5th and 6th at the Center’s grounds. Along with arts and crafts, there was Maypole dancing, kid’s activities, […]
1. We passed by the Abbey Road Restaurant while in Virginia Beach this weekend and passed the place in Bethany Beach where the shop called Octupus’s Garden used to be. 2. My favorite Beatles’s line is probably “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window.” I once had a sign made saying that and it hung […]
It was actually the Fairmount “Four” because one poet didn’t make it. I read as a featured poet, along with Sean Bowers, James Bane and Taz Waysweete at the bi-monthly poetry salon, held in the Norfolk home of poets Jack Callan and Judith Stevens. It was Mother’s Day and some of themes revolved around that, […]
Well actually it’s the nurse That’s Joe’s sister Rosemary, who knows that the way to my heart is not diamonds, it might be flowers, but mostly it’s pie. We got to spent some of Mother’s Day weekend with Joe’s mom in Bethany Beach. We brought her a pot of geraniums. Joe built a bridge over […]
