1. Making THIS is not as easy as it looks. 2. What if Dear Abby’s name was Prudence? 3. Ah or Ha? 4. A smile is an instant face-lift. 5. Smiling can trick your brain into happiness — and boost your health. A smile spurs a powerful chemical reaction in the brain that can make […]
The last few weeks of my brother’s lives played out like the conclusion of a dramatic Hollywood script, a plot with a twist. The road trip they took, two weeks before the first death, became the beginning of a larger journey, the one in which they would both leave this world. I have decided to […]
_________Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday
What can I say? I feel compelled to dance and compelled to record the occasion. We got the $10 show price at Dogtown. They paid $30 the night before and more than that, I suspect, when she opened for Lee Ann Womack this month. A lot has happened since Morgan first debuted her songs on […]
It’s just talking It’s just thinking then writing it down on paper I don’t know how to write a poem I don’t know what a poem is I always think the poem I’m working on is the last one I’ll ever write I have no idea like I know we all die but don’t know […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on October 24, 2019. There is an actual cabin at the Cabin Fever Charity events on Coles Knob Road along Terry’s Fork creek. It’s the home of event founders, Rob and Whitney Maddox. The couple have been hosting benefits that feature the best in local musical talent […]
1. Hang up or hang out? 2. Tense or intense? 3. Line seen on Facebook: Halloween is my favorite color. 4. Also seen on Facebook: The proper term for senior women should be queenagers. 5. Strand by Strand / her world closes in / By her own design / she hangs by a thread. 6. […]
Following the posting of THIS poem about my sister’s death in 2015, I received a few comments on this blog and on Facebook asking about my brothers Jim and Dan’s back to back deaths, which happened in 2001. I actually wrote a book about it that was used for years as part of a Radford […]
You take a Sunday drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway and pull over for anything red Your high beams are marigold and zinnia and your silver lining is a web ____Our World Tuesday
We were asked to be present to an evening that will never happen again. We were asked not to take photos or video clips at the Nights of Grief and Mystery, so this is for memory. But it’s a true story and it really happened, as Griefwalker Stephen Jenkinson likes to preface some of his […]
Wrinkled with age Some cackle as they fall from broomstick branches on bony bare limbs outstretched like arms that could grab you __________Colleen Redman / Poets United
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on October 17, 2019. There’s still time to see the production of Oz! the Musical this Friday and Saturday at 7:00 and Sunday at 2:00. The Floyd Community Theatre Guild (FCTG) had a sold-out opening night for their June Bug Center presentation of Oz! The Musical, and […]
