-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on December 30, 2021. Objects are Closer Than They Appear is a new book of poetry by Floyd poet Colleen Redman. The 43-poem collection is a sequel, or a deepening, to Redman’s 2017 Packing a Suitcase for the Afterlife, published by Finishing Line Press. As a poetic […]
1. Pandemic or endemic? 2. Is there ever really any such thing as “good grief?” 3. Sometimes when my TV signal for ABC is weak it creates colorful pixel blocks on the screen. I pause to watch for a while because it reminds me of a Gustav Klimt painting. 4. “This world is full of […]
Or should I say ‘unwrap?’ There’s always a family Christmas album cover shoot. This year we got a little wigged out. Some learned to play backgammon. I’m officially part of a Backgammon family now (outnumbered), which doesn’t help me much as a Scrabble player. I didn’t get a Scrabble game but I did get an […]
1. The life-size cardboard Santa at the top of the stairs kept scaring everyone so I had to move it. 2. We had a visitor over the weekend who came to deer hunt with Joe. After a successful hunt, we all went out to Dogtown Roadhouse for pizza and dancing, and we had a Christmas […]
Aka: Solstice Signs ___________Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday
Astonished moon looks down with surprise as if just discovering its fear of heights ___________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on December 16, 2021. Before becoming Floyd’s first Tourism Director, Pat Sharkey owned a jewelry and gemstone business for more than 20 years. Now, a new incarnation of Earth Dance has just opened up as a retail shop — located downtown in The Station — and Sharkey […]
Somebody had a birthday. But it wasn’t us. Somebody played Prince. Twice. Somebody was flatfooting. While others were rocking steady with Doby at Dogtown. And loitering downtown a bit before heading home for an early night and early morning hunt.
‘The perfect gift is the one you give to another,’ that’s the motto of The Perfect Gift Shop (TPGS), which distributes holiday shopping gift certificates to children and adults with developmental disabilities so they can experience the joy of giving. The all-volunteer, non-profit organization founded five years ago by Jean Woods, held a public Open […]
1. That title above is a joke. The real title should be “The ‘It’s 30 Degrees Outside’ AT Trial Run.” 2. My friend Katherine and I are planning a poetry book reading tour in the new year. We were going to call it “The Death Card Tour” but figured we should work up to that. […]
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Music is a big part of my life and I’m happy that we have such good music in Floyd and so many options to hear it. Not to mention craft beer and some that is Floyd made. I’m all about good songwriting and those unique deliveries. Clay Blevins played a rich variety of songs at […]
