-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on July 9, 2020 The Floyd Country Store’s 4th of July Concert on the Lawn followed a first successful Friday Night Backyard Jamboree, after the popular event and other inside gatherings were cancelled due to COVID-19. About 130 music fans, some carrying in food, drinks and ice […]
1. Me to Joe, who was going to the golf course: Are you going to putt or to putter? 2. “The beauty of quarantine is that you don’t have to see people you don’t want to see, which simplifies life, just as memory loss does. Life comes down to basics. Sleeping, eating, talking, reading, writing, […]
Aka: Hopa is a real good sport _________Wordless Wednesday
There were no fireworks in Floyd this year, but our waitress at the Dogtown Porch bar brought the July 4th spirit. A family of kids put on a show at the Warren Lineberry Park to the bluegrass tunes of Junior Sisk, Jesse Smathers, Sammy Shelor and Barry Collins coming from the Floyd Country Store Concert […]
Lost like the sins in confession that I didn’t remember committing like the clothes left in closets whenever I moved and all the high school boys I said ‘no’ to It looked so much like the day before that I didn’t notice I had lost it My gold wedding ring that slipped off in the […]
My energy has been lower than my normal abnormal low energy. My work at the local newspaper has slowed to a drip. Because of the pandemic, I can’t go to Dogtown and dance to live music. Floydfest, our town’s renowned music festival, has been cancelled and there aren’t even any July 4th fireworks to look […]
1. With all our mask wearing, we’re all incognito now. 2. As someone who likes to do research, I say ‘look it up’ a lot. 3. Joe went to a family reunion on the beach while I stayed home alone with the shingles, which made me ask, a retreat or a sentence? 4. How uncanny […]
