Reading “Eulogy in Self-portrait” at the Roanoke Library at Hollins, a poetry event with keynote speaker and reader Laura-Gray Street — author of Pigment and Fume (Salmon Poetry) and co-editor of The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press) and A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia (University of Georgia Press). Hosted by Angela Dribben, VP of […]
Don’t give up the ghost Just lower the lights Invite poetry to visit like a voice from the distance Wait for the right words to rise ___________Colleen Redman /Poets and Storytellers United
1. Yeah, that’s about right, the thinking bubble over my head is psychedelic. 2. “Our capacity for what psychoanalyst Adam Phillips has termed “fertile solitude” is absolutely essential not only for our creativity but for the basic fabric of our happiness – without time and space unburdened from external input and social strain, we’d be […]
I always meet a lot of great people at Zadie’s, the restaurant and bar downstairs from The Old Marshall Jail Hotel in NC that my son refurbished. There was a really good contingency of Boston natives there on Saturday night. The accents were flying with the shared stories of growing up on the North and […]
The last time I took a picture of our weekly Scrabble game, Chris was playing two boards at a time, one with Jayn and one with Mark. This time, Daphne and Jayn played as a duo team opposite me after Daphne finished her three-way game early. I kept my lead with Jayn throughout the game, […]
1. So, Super Bowl is for football and not bowling? 2. On Super Bowl Sunday, my friend Mara posted pictures of her holding all the best-looking bowls in her house. 3. The pre-game Super Bowl spectacle was a little too North Korea looking for me. 4. The Kansas City Chiefs looked like red tootsie pops. […]
________Wordless Wednesday
Floyd loves reggae. It was the season kick-off for the Sky High Roots Reggae Season with Crucial Fiya at Dogtown. The band did a Bob Marley tribute, along with their own songs. Yes, we were jammin’ Yes, we sang along. DJ rubystar was in the house and artist Jesi Lundy projected her art for a […]
As someone with CFS (a longer hauler from a virus in the late 70s), I understand that immune response and stress are energy expenditures, as is thinking and writing, which I spend a lot of time doing. As someone whose daily total energy expenditure is approximately about 30% less than other adults my age, it’s […]
1. My husband Joe is my type. 2. Is heaven a gated community? 3. Intimate greetings / on unfolded hearts / Our love is an open book / with its message delivered / at the close of the day / Held at the binding / our sweet sentiments are sealed. – Poem from the ‘90s. […]
This is the Scrabble game I played with a migraine aura and seven one point vowel tiles. Nah Nah got played twice as if it were a taunt. I learned that “Ruth” was a real word that means “empathy,” as in the opposite of “Ruthless.” Someone added a “T” and made it “truth.” Then I […]
Game night antics involved a box of chocolates, chips, dips and drinks and a mad libs card game not for the faint at heart. In other words, not your grandmother’s bridge party. Take two: I told my friend Susanna that I wouldn’t put this picture of her in The Floyd Press, like I did HERE […]
