It was a beautiful night to see Sarah McLachlan at the DC Merriweather Post Pavilion with our good friends Greg and Laura. Our drinks were cold and our seats were lawn green on the grassy knoll. We were in good company with a mix of fans who sang along to her songs. I think our […]
1. I call the below Wavy Gravy. 2. And below is Nantasket Beach from the Nantasket Beach Resort Penthouse. 3. When I stayed with my sister in Massachusetts we swam in her community pool. One day we went and it was closed, so we went into the community rec room to ask about it. A […]
It was a joyful meeting of first cousins-once-removed that we never knew we had, until DNA results at Ancestry dot com revealed our mutual history. The meet-up was a lively one with several conversations going on at once. Someone joked to the waitress that it was a board meeting, and I imagine we were entertaining […]
On our way to Boston to visit family we stopped at an upstate NY Airbnb in WallKill near Platterkill. I kid you not. We stayed in Wallkill to break up the road trip from Virginia to Massachusetts and because we wanted to visit the Entheon, a psychedelic temple in Hudson Valley. Entheon is home to […]
1. I won an album in a raffle at the Ballad Swap at the Old Marshall Jail. 2. And I didn’t get locked up. More HERE. 3. Although he’s not a ballad singer, My son Josh, owner of the Old Marshall Jail Hotel and Ballad Swap host, performed Rocky Racoon at the Old Swap, saying […]
“I spent five years transforming this building from the oldest operational jail in the entire state of North Carolina into what you see today,” Josh Copus (my son) said at the June Ballad Swap. Josh is a potter/artist and owner of the Old Marshall Jail, a boutique hotel bar and restaurant that is curated with […]
–The following was first published in The Floyd Press on June 13, 2024 – The Book House (132 N Locust St) celebrated its Open House as part of the Floyd Artisan Trail on Saturday. Owners Kim Dulaney and Leah Cantrell, who were first place winners of the 2023 Floyd C4 Business Development Series, welcomed crowds […]
1. My fingernails are always dirty but I’m smiling more. 2. I used to think scarecrows were ornamental and that hay bales were put there by farmers for Andrew Wyeth to paint. – Colleen from the 70s 3. Sometimes all I can manage is 13 pictures for 13 Thursday. 4. I like to take random […]
-After a neurological diagnosis The first time I remember involuntarily swooning was on a plane to or from my brother Jim’s funeral to or from sitting with my brother Dan when he died a few weeks after we buried Jim But I swooned before that when I fell hard on the gym floor fainting at […]
1. Only once in nine years did I make it early enough to hear the Little River Poetry Festival kayakers read from the rock amphitheater on the river, but I did make it to the 7 Voices Poetry Ensemble at 10 a.m. on Sunday, the last day of the festival. 2. Curated by festival co-founder […]
Lovingly tended and attended for nine years now, the festival is in full bloom and its seeds are spreading far and wide. What can I say? Every year, we say ‘best yet’ but this year really did top them all. On Saturday morning 20+ poets kayaked down the river writing poems while 20+ and more […]
When I arrived at the 9th annual Little River Poetry festival Friday Toni Britton was reading poems under the big tent to an attentive audience. LRPF founders Judith and Jack set the stage with words of welcome. Poets reunited with hugs and conversation while lunch was being set up by the crew at Floyd’s Outer […]
