The following 2021 review was done by excerpting the first line or few in one post from each month last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January: The snow we got at the New Year was like frosting that covered everything and made me wonder where the […]
1. I went to put on some chap stick in the dark when going to bed and it turned out to be a glue stick. 2. I told my friend Holly that and she said, “does that mean your lips are sealed?’” 3. I just call it a face mask, but when I posted this […]
The Yankee Swap referee. The family portrait. Let the Catan games begin! The band. Everyone has their eye on that yard of Twix. Some are Yankee Swap spectators. What time is it? Christmas morning. Mother and son time. Is it another yard of twix? Maybe something for golf? Santa is the ultimate referee. He says […]
As a young girl, I was intrigued by the story of Hansel and Gretel, especially the part when they came across the gingerbread house of candy. Although the story turned dark, I never forgot my delight over that fairytale house. So, it’s no surprise that every year, I am drawn to the Floyd Country Store’s […]
1. My friend Chris played two Scrabble games on two Scrabble boards at the same time. 2. Scrabble or scramble? 3. “You are in this time of the interim where everything seems withheld. The path you took to get here has washed out. The way forward is still concealed from you. The old is not […]
“It takes time in the dark room to bring lived-experience into focus and to develop the meaning we’ve made of our lives.” Poems from the Dark Room, Colleen Redman’s third book of poems in a series, has been published and can now be ordered ($13) from Amazon and is available locally at The Harvest Moon […]
Home for the Holidays, a Virginia Blue Ridge Music Festival classical music concert with Maestro David Wiley and friends, received a warm and cheerful reception at the Floyd Event Center on Sunday. Wiley on piano shared the stage with soprano Adelaide Muir and violinist Kevin Matheson. “The spirit of this is family and friends around […]
We went to a “Christmas Office party.” It just happened to be a Floydfest party for the festival team of workers. We got a top-notch 4-wheel tour of the new Floydfest site. There was an inaugural “On-the-Rise” Cookie Competition. The spread included some “Bad Ass” cookies. Not to be confused with the “Good as Shi*” […]
Turntable moon A long playing disc Climbs all the charts and spins all the hits __________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
1. Waiting in a hospital bay for the doctor to appear from the operating room when your procedure is hours late and you haven’t eaten in 18 hours, is like, but much worse than, waiting for the restaurant waiter to appear at the kitchen door with your food when you’re over-hungry and can think of […]
I went to see Santa! He’s an old friend. The real Santa, I’m convinced. The spirit of St. Nick incarnate. He brought the kid out in me. I raised my hand like the other kids and most of the adults when he asked, ‘who’s on the list?’“ The naughty list?” he joked. And I sang […]
