These are my people. There’s a reason why dancing to The Kind at the Pine has been a Halloween tradition in Floyd for decades. We all love the music (lots of Grateful Dead), love to dance and no one has more fun. I thought Wendy was Tigger from Winnie the Pooh and Rick (on drums) […]
You like to rhyme time and make it seem natural You make the best of chaos and acknowledge denial You leave your will and testament with every written poem You read newspaper obituaries as if looking for your next home room You hurt your knees scrubbing kitchen floors You gave up praying on them years […]
I did not wear anything orange, but a few were in costume at Dogtown Friday night, where Music Road Company and friends raised the dead (I mean roof, maybe). Joe and I had just come from a June Bug performance of The Addams Family, so the skeleton coming out of a casket at the front […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on October 28, 2021. Roanoke-based best-selling author Beth Macy recently attended a public screening at the Floyd Country Store of the first episode of Hulu’s new series, Dopesick, which is based on her 2018 book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America. The drama […]
1. “Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 2. Reading the Tarot / of its leafy spread / Autumn is the Tower / of disruptive change. 3. Apparently, my poetry book, Packing a Suitcase for the Afterlife, is […]
The New River Trail follows along an old railroad track path. It’s 57 flat scenic miles long that runs along the New River, some private property and the carved-out side of a mountain. It’s the longest and narrowest Virginia State Park. Joe could have done the whole thing easy. He’s done longer bike rides. But, […]
I like to rhyme but not on cue I like a relationship of lines that are interchangeable Poems like make-up no one knows you’re wearing Aged like wine and honey poured from the psyche I like stand-out stanzas that hold up without a prop and words that show up where you least expect them Distilled […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on October 21, 2021. A gallery of photos can be found HERE. Referencing Saturday’s sunny weather and Floyd’s colorful fall foliage, Tour de Dirt organizer and founder Paul Sullivan reminded cyclists participating in the 15th annual event that the ride is not a race, but a tour […]
1. It was the annual Tour de Dirt fundraiser ride for PLENTY! Farm and Food Bank. Joe, who had a pulled muscle from playing soccer and couldn’t ride this year, was my backseat photographer… See me not get run over at “Sometimes I’m a Newspaper Field Reporter” HERE. 2. After I posted that entry on […]
Aka: Someone threw confetti all over my yard ____________Wordless Wednesday
It was the annual Tour de Dirt fundraiser ride for PLENTY! Farm and Food Bank. Joe, who had a pulled muscle from playing soccer and couldn’t ride this year, was my backseat photographer. Sometimes he took pictures with his phone. Other times he directed traffic. That’s my friend Miriam taking a picture of me taking […]
1. Lifted mood Night light soothes Orbits like a mobile in a baby’s nursery room 2. Escaped petal Floats away in daylight Will not be pressed by summer’s end ________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
