"A blog is to a writer what a canvas is to an artist." ~ Colleen Redman

Young at Heart

This is my dear friend Alwyn reading the story I wrote for The Floyd Press about Kathleen Weddle Jamison’s 100th birthday celebration.  “Are you going to write a story for me when I turn 100?” she asked. “I’ll write one as big as a billboard!” I answered.  She’s 94!

“Do you mind if I take your picture and show it to our friends?” I asked.  She smiled her answer.

It recently occurred to me that I should have created a whole sidebar category for Alwyn when I started blogging in 2005, but now it seems easier to list links on past posts that highlight some of her passions and accomplishments over the years, many of which were first published in The Floyd Press newspaper. This is the beauty of a writer’s filing cabinet, aka a blog.

Pride Goeth Before the Fall: A recent post on Alwyn recovering from hip surgery and my visit with her via a window because of Covid.

A Word from Alwyn: TO FLY THE EARTH FLAG, a 2020 post on Alwyn’s Earth Day Flag

The Secrets Have Come True – A 2019 birthday party, concert, book signing and informal review of her poetry book Remembering Their Names: A Gathering Time. 

Never Love a Feral Cat –  A 2018 review of Alwyn’s book Never Love a Feral Cat 

Alwyn is 90! 2016 Birthday Party

Thomas Berry: The Great Story– A 2015 story I wrote when Alwyn was a panel member at a SustainFloyd event documentary screening and conversation on  eco-theologian Thomas Berry HERE. 

Images in Color – Alwyn’s 2014 Art Show at Warm Hearth Village.

Alwyn’s Earth Day Flag 1, 2012

Blue Mountain School: Memories Shared and Memories Made: 30th Anniversary of Floyd’s independent Blue Mountain School, where Alwyn was the first Waldorf Kindergarten teacher. 2012

Woods and Water – Hike at the Cascades 2009.

2 Responses | Add your Own

  • 1 Sherry:

    What a wonderful woman and so glad she is your life. It’s great to share all her growing up days.

  • 2 colleen:

    She’s really done a lot! She’s an environmentalist with a stack of commentaries that have been published in The Roanoke Times over the years. We used to write and put a peace publication together called The Bell.

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