1. Disrupt or interrupt? 2. During all my recent Floydfest posting and sharing to two private pages, Facebook started taking down some of my posts. Their message said “It looks like you tried to get likes, follows, shares or video views in a misleading way.” Well, yes, isn’t that why we share? The misleading reference […]
Sunday’s send-off from Floydfest 2024 began for me with a John Prine tribute and sing-along with friends at the Canopy Grove Stage. I arrived late afternoon for the fourth day of celebrating. I was tired and thinking I was going to hang back, but an impromptu hangout with some old friends, mixed with John Prine’s […]
If there ever was a Floyd house band that the local music lovers and dancers follow, it would be Music Road Co. They christened Floydfest’s Higher Ground stage with their funk, rock Latin and reggae songs at the start of the festival on Wednesday evening, then again Thursday night and Saturday at the VIP pub […]
It didn’t rain once on my two days so far at Floydfest, but there were signs of past rains on Thursday, and I had a hard time keeping my head up for want of finding a four-leaf clover in the grass. On Friday, I got lucky walking through the site when I heard Jaime Wyatt […]
I arrived Thursday at noon for opening day at Floydfest @Festival Park with no problems getting on site, no traffic on the 221 and no long lines into the festival check-in. It was a new Horizon, after leaving the old and beloved Blue Ridge Parkway site and skipping last year as the new site was […]
Every poem is a case note Every dream is sun for the soul Every love is a lifeboat Every life holds a vein of gold _________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
1. That pesky Q. When I played Scrabble at the beach, I was winning until someone went out and I got stuck with a Q. This time it was my friend Jayn who got stuck with it and got 10 points taken off her score. 2. Why do we even have a Q? Isn’t C […]
I had forgotten how much humor was mixed in with the drama of Steel Magnolias. The above photo depicts the opening scene of the play performed by the New River Theatre Guild at the June Bug Center last night. At first I wasn’t sure who was under that head of wild hair. It turned out […]
I’m not unemployed but I have no income I have a very unpopular job: I write poetry _________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
1. I’ve never been a Florence Nightingale type. I’m more of a Jerry Seinfeld. 2. I’ve done years of therapy. I use dreams to inform me and write poetry as case notes. 3. I’ve never been a Mother Theresa type. More of a nutty professor. 4. My life is like a library book / being […]
I told all my friends that my idea of hell is exercising in a pool with a bunch of old ladies lifting pool noodles in unison But I love to swim I do the breast stroke slow and solo like water ballet I make my own way up and down the lap lane I once […]
1. While in Bethany Beach Delaware for Joe’s family reunion, I learned how to play Wordle, saw dolphins and had clean fingernails for the first time all summer (from swimming in the pool and not gardening). 2. Joe’s 95-year-old mom started our Scrabble game with the word BEACH on a double word score. 3. She […]
