– The following 2018 review was done by excerpting the first line or few in one post from each month last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January – I finally found a use for our plastic spinner sled that has no brakes or steering. It’s great […]
A thumbprint of evidence in winter’s cold case The muse gives witness to the moon’s phased escape _________Colleen Redman / Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
1. Netflix’s Peeky Blinders, which Joe likes to call Squeaky Binders, is the Breaking Bad of Downton Abbey. 2. “Don’t go to the next location.” That’s what I tell myself when I wake up in the middle of the night and don’t want to go down the mind’s path of thinking. 3. My writing is […]
__________ Wordless Wednesday
That’s a wrap for the family Christmas Eve gift exchange, the yearly Christmas album cover shoot and the neighborhood Cookies and Kahlua Party, dubbed as “Everyone’s Already Talking About It.” There was an overflow of party goers (including some from Maine and Spain) and a record amount of kids, so our grandsons, Bryce and Liam, […]
A glowing bulb to top a tree for winter’s Christmas scenery __________Colleen Redman / Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
-Some of the following photos first appeared in The Floyd Press on December 6, 2018 and throughout the holiday season. Excitement mounts as the 2018 Floyd Christmas Parade begins. Local Veterans march down Locust Street. Some spectators waved and some cheered as the Veterans marched by. The Floyd County High School Band strikes up the […]
1. Could “stake,” as in “stake a claim,” be a mutant plural of “take?” 2. The more things change, the more they remain the same: Right before I took a series of photos of Joe wrestling with our grandsons, Bryce and Liam, I came across some old photos of Joe wrestling our sons, Josh and […]
They Have a new Black IPA at the Buffalo Mountain Brewery. It’s good, part stout, part IPA, and named Get the LED Out, after Led Zeppelin, my once favorite band that I saw in concert before they were famous, and after that as well. I was winning the game before I drank the beer, and […]
______Our World Tuesday
The thought has to drop like a pin to the floor in a bottomless dream where it stakes its claim With a prick of interest that doesn’t draw blood it won’t wake you up until morning When you struggle to make something out of nothing or look for a needle in a haystack maze When […]
Celebrate Joy front and center (my grandson Bryce) in a green gingerbread man Christmas sweater! With a modern twist and a hip hop ho ho! With a pinata, a sleigh, a dreidl and a candle, it was an all star Christmas show!
