That was my dear poet/writer friend Alwyn’s title, once we could finally talk, however brief, through a screened and venetian blinded window at the care facility she is at. She dictated it to me. She couldn’t hear me well because her hearing isn’t good, but I heard her via our phones. She said, “I’ll tell […]
It was a Christmas lights extravaganza timed to music of the season, the Daklights in Dublin, about a 45 min – to an hour’s drive from us. I quickly figured out that I got the best pictures by shaking the camera as I clicked. Their write-up description says, “Since its inception in 2010, the show […]
I drink the sun from the bottom of a cup reflected off my glasses with light laced mandalas It only takes a sip to be under its influence immersed in its starburst from tea drenched darkness From its pot of honey gold in every color of the rainbow its visionary shine cascades through my window […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on December 10, 2020. Jessie Benson had already accomplished a lot when she set out on a new path, freeing herself of achieving goals for the wrong reasons. In 2014, after years of being intensely focused on medical school, getting straight A grades and then working as […]
1. I like that jingle rhymes with Kris Kringle 2. Cha-ching or jingle? 3. Dancing to live music is an essential activity for me. 4. Shall we be released? Any day now? 5. Star of Bethlehem– Later this month, you can witness a rare event in the night sky that has not been seen in […]
A pen and notebook: a writer’s best friend when doing an interview. My grandson Liam’s bakery tasting critic’s review: MMMMM Story on Buffalo Mountain Bakery and owner/baker Jessie Benson coming soon to The Floyd Press.
When daylight darkens my mind drops down to the pink tulip bulb that I buried in November as a remedy for winter come spring Shown on the package to be as pink as the tulip in the white framed photograph that hung on my mother’s bedroom wall that she wanted to fit in my suitcase […]
-Some of the following photos first appeared in The Floyd Press on December 3, 2020. Santa was in town greeting children at The Sacred Star and Stone on Saturday. The young ones had to decide whether to give Santa the benefit of the doubt or not. The warm weather brought out shoppers and visitors. Some […]
This is Joe on the phone with his mother who was wishing him Happy Birthday after he spent the day working online out of his truck and being at the DMV because his license was about to expire. Then we realized it was because it was his birthday! After he talked with his mom, he […]
1. I don’t like afternoon naps like I don’t like hors d’oeuvres that spoil my appetite before dinner. 2. “I hate Scrabble. They tell you it’s about the words but it’s all about the numbers.” – From the movie Sometimes Always Never 3. The Happy Virus: I caught the happy virus last night / When […]
