1. Hiking the AT is not unlike following the Grateful Dead. Dead heads and AT hikers both become like family as far as camaraderie, support and helping each other goes. There are trail angels who offer supplies and feed the hikers hot food where ever the trail and a road cross. Most of them are […]
Joe got off the trail at the Nantahala Outdoor Center but not before a second blast of cold weather in his two week AT hike. Feeling celebratory after hiking 145 miles, he got in his comfy new crocs and waited for our son Josh, who lives in Marshall NC, to pick him up and drive […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on March 24, 2022. The Mike Mitchell Band opened up the main stage at FloydFest last year on Sunday morning for Blue Grass Day, adding to front man Mike Mitchell’s regular festival itinerary, heading up the FloydFest Band Camp as director of the Floyd Music School. Every […]
The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on March 24, 2022. The Mystical Witches of Floyd more than doubled their goal for fundraising Saturday to benefit first responders in Ukraine, already closing in on $1,000 at the half-way point. The sidewalk sale on March 19 featured ceramic and wooden sunflower magnets, jewelry and pillows, […]
Hiking the AT is not unlike following the Grateful Dead. Dead heads and AT hikers both become like family as far as camaraderie, support and helping each other goes. There are lots of spontaneous and diverse exchanges and making new friends. There are trail angels who offer supplies and feed the hikers hot food where […]
1. My dad used to say to my mother, “You look like $100 bucks.” 2. He also used to say (or yell) to us 9 kids, “I want this place looking like a million bucks when your mother gets home!” 3. Change is the name of an old poem I wrote that got published in […]
The end of week one on the Appalachian Trail, Joe says: “I’m loving the AT. My soul is happy, my mind and heart are at peace. Meanwhile, the ankles and knees are trying to figure out who hijacked this vessel.” After a week he and his hiking mate took “a zero day” where they do […]
It was a good dance turn-out for a good band and a sacrifice on my part to giving up dancing while getting this short clip of my favorite song they do. Watching my friend Sally dance to her namesake song was worth the price of admission. Watch her smile and wave (near the end between […]
Pack it up Sell off the parts Let it drop Become a disembodied name that slips the mind Fall out of character Start at the end and take a number Walk through walls or walk on water Become the air for others to breathe A memory that floats like a fragrance _____Colleen Redman / Poets […]
1. For me, as a virus long hauler for 40 years, “spring fever” is a real thing. As the temperature and sap rises so does my low-grade fever. 2. As a wallflower, I don’t talk to walls, but I do talk to flowers. I tell them they’re pretty and that they make me happy. 3. […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on March 10, 2022. In a building on Wilson Street, behind the Pharm House, two Floyd County Historical Society volunteers are busy at work on a worthy and labor intensive project, preserving old historical records of the county, some that date back as far as the formation […]
We didn’t read poetry, but we still got to “act our age.” And so did he! Everyone who posed at Allister’s birthday photo booth was numero uno for a few minutes. Happy Birthday Allister! ________Still Acting Our Age poetry reading tour is HERE and HERE.
