1. Double take would make a good name for a second-hand clothing shop. 2. That’s my friend Mark making his second 7 letter Scrabble Bingo in the first few plays of the game. The second one is below the first and makes six new small words. 3. Does ZAG exist without ZIG? I played UNITE […]
Artemis is an uncrewed spacecraft that was planned to launch today for a moon-orbiting mission. It’s also the name of the premier poetry and art journal, founded and headed up by Floyd Countian Jeri Rogers Not only is Artemis Journal about to launch its 2022 issue at Roanoke’s Taubman Museum on September 2, 5-9 pm, […]
It was a feast of food and fun for Katherine’s birthday at Mickey G’s Wednesday evening. So much fun that someone suggested we have a regular Wednesday night dinner club. Our waitress was nice enough to take this picture. She was telling us to say things like cheese and Happy Birthday. When our longtime friend […]
I hate when a notebook ends It’s like a detour in the road when I don’t know the alternate route If a notebook was a casket I would recite the best parts and read a funeral eulogy before I closed the cover I would bury it in my yard like a dog buries a bone […]
1. I’m always up for live music at Dogtown, and by “up” I mean dancing. 2. Mona is to Bob Dylan what jellyroll is to Van Morrison. 3. During my meditation this morning, my two-syllable meaningless TM mantra turned into four-syllable INTJ (my Meyers Briggs type) when my mind wandered and I wondered if Dylan […]
-Golden Years: the years of retirement, normally after age 65, or a song by David Bowie. Getting older is bittersweet. It’s an acquired taste. It’s also a time of harvest when the fruit is ripe for picking, and the work done over time to get to this stage of age pays off. Katherine Chantal and […]
When the soul asserts its right of way it leads the dance Grief and honoring are the blood sisters that braid the steps They slow-dance through loss hold the symmetry of paradox and for the sake of artful fate are moved towards transcendence When the soul takes the lead there’s a deep delving There’s a […]
1. When the Buffalo Mountain Brewery opened up in Floyd, I tried living a pub life, but, although I love craft beer, I just don’t drink that much. Then, when my part time job writing for the local paper got cut back, I tried living the life of a bookworm, but I enjoy reading articles […]
Twenty-two teams of four and thirty-eight sponsors took part in The Second Chance Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament at the Hidden Valley Country Club in Salem to raise scholarship funds for students to attend college at Virginia Western Community College. “This scholarship was created with the intent for students to recognize that they do have a […]
This is not a sewing bee. Nor is it a bridge club. It’s an overflow meeting of minds, the Scrabble kind, enjoying lunch and crunching letters at Outerspace.
1. This is not what I meant by swimming… 2. Having a year-round indoor pool nearby is #1 on my bucket list. 3. Last week I saw a dead possum in the road that someone had attached a balloon to that said ‘Get Well Soon. 4. I dreamt that my dad read a poem that […]
I dreamt I cut off my ear the way I casually cut fabric or slice a potato which made me ask what other ways do I self-harm? What other impulsive act can’t be taken back? What don’t I want to hear? I saved the evidence but forgot what it was intended for so I tucked […]
