Backyard Beauties
___________Wordless Wednesday
"A blog is to a writer what a canvas is to an artist." ~ Colleen Redman
Archive for March, 2020
Social Distance Camping
It’s been a dizzying turn of events in the last few weeks. But, for a couple of days, we had a campground to ourselves, which was located by a nearby park along the New River. Our grandson Liam thinks he’d rather bike than walk a mile on the trail. Single file. Checking out the local […]
Waxing Crescent
Slight of light Ray of fate embraces the pale glow of the moon’s dark weight __________Colleen Redman / Poets United and Storytellers United
Local Shops Shift Gears
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on March 26, 2020. “It’s new territory for us. We’re going to be smart and shift gears,” said Floyd Country Store co-owner Heather Krantz to a customer who had come in for lunch last Tuesday. The store’s main dining room was closed, following Governor Northam’s announcement earlier […]
13: Pit Stop
1. Shelter or shutter? 2. The song ‘You can’t touch this’ has been going through my head. 3. I posted the above on Facebook and someone answered with “Don’t Stand So Close to Me.” 4. Wild or Mild? 5. Bono wrote a new song “Let Your Love Be Known,” a St Patrick’s Day gift to […]
Remember When The Only Reason to Wear a Mask Was to Clean Out the Chicken Coop?
___________Wordless Wednesday
The Jim and Dan Stories Revisited: Chapter 17
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 […]
Daffy or Just Happy?
__________Our World Tuesday
Going Viral
Our hands are not concealed weapons passing the cooties we feared as children Let smiles be the contagion Be touched by love Spread goodwill and let it go viral __________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
13: I Jive You Not
1. Not only is there currently no hand sanitizers sold in stores, you can’t buy the ingredients to make your own. 2. I don’t like to be away from a new poem for too long and find myself giving it the once over more than once. 3. Is it a coincidence that the word panic […]
It’s a Spring Fling Thing!
_________Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday
I Did My Irish Duty
Joe and I celebrated St. Patrick’s Day early at the local pub Saturday night. “I heard that people named Colleen get free drinks,” I said to the bartender. “No, that’s Dogtown,” she joked back. I drank a green beer and we wore green clothes, as did the band, the Leftover Biscuits, named for the band […]
