1. Joe to Colleen at Zadie’s Café at The Old Marshall Jail: Joe: How’s your fish sandwich? Me: I thought it was chicken. Joe: It’s fish. Me: For a minute I thought it was fried clams. Joe: is it Cod? Me: No. Joe is it catfish? Me: No. It’s mild and white. Joe to Josh: […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on October 7, 2021. About 25 volunteers raised their hedge shears and clippers as they posed for a group photo before beginning work on the Dodd Creek Trail, located at the County’s Floyd Recreation Park. The workday was hosted by the Partnership for Floyd (PFF), the citizens […]
Aka: Morgan Wade Goes to Jail for All the Right Reasons. Not only did we see Floyd’s own country chart climbin’ star Morgan Wade perform at the Gray Eagle in Asheville, but she and her awesome band stayed at my son Josh and his wife Emily’s Old Marshall Jail Hotel in Marshall NC. We took […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on October 7, 2021. Attendance grew throughout the afternoon at Saturday’s annual PFLAG PRIDE celebration. The free public event, held for the first time at the Floyd EcoVillage, featured live music, vending booths, yoga, guided meditation and drag show entertainment. Emil Morris, an outreach worker with the […]
1. Poetry is like math. You have to add meaning and sound together and make it equal the right answer. 2. I like a lived-in journal where I know my way around. When I open it, it’s like opening a favorite kitchen junk drawer that holds everything I might possibly need. It’s messy but I […]
_______Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday
Yesterday I googled “Drop off the face of the earth” and worried the FBI could be watching I wanted to pay up whatever was due but couldn’t afford forever stamps I learned that empyreal is a real word that means the highest part of heaven It speaks to the quantum reality that emptiness and matter […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on September 30, 2021. Woolly Jumper Yarns owner Michele Morris announced on Facebook on Aug. 19 that the yarn shop would be closing at the end of September after 10 years of serving customers in two different downtown Floyd locations. The closing “is not because of COVID […]
