It takes years of prep for the magic trick of being here one minute and gone the next Death is as strange as being sawed in half One day your parachute won’t open Or your shoulders won’t work and on the way down you’ll ask Who was it for? What was it worth? Was it […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on April 8, 2021. Sandra Smith has taught for the Floyd County Public School (FCPS) system since the fall of 1971. From kindergarten to high school, she teaches chorus and piano and, in some cases, has taught three generations of the same family. Tenth-grader AJ Cantrell, one […]
1. Every day is a live cold open. You’re on the air. 2. I’ve never been able to balance my check book. I just keep extra money in my account so my checks won’t bounce. 3. During my flower child days, it was hip to say ‘let’s bounce” when we were leaving a place. Sometimes […]
___________Happy Easter 2021 / Our World Tuesday
It all comes down to facecloths and underwear I have to wash to black and white thread you can stitch anything with and a blue hen’s egg in the laying box It all comes down to which flowers are in bloom the size of the moon and what to make for lunch to what dreams […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on April 1, 2021. Spring is the season for raking, weeding, clipping, digging and planting, and there’s been a lot of that going on at the Harvest Moon Food Store’s front entrance. “It’s getting a facelift,” said Allison Bowden, one of the co-owners of Juneberry Gardens, a […]
