We closed out 2024 with an epic Dogtown dance party. It’s a tradition! The line-up included soul+ with Solacoustix, reggae with Father Sun and the driving dance beats of what I like to claim as my home family band, Music Road Co. Our community has watched Nyo Allen, son of MRCO bandmate Janiah and nephew […]
It was a smaller than usual traditional Christmas Eve gathering. There were a couple of people sick, some who got better just in time and one expecting a Christmas baby (not pictured). But we still had double-header Christmas Eve Parties with the family. And then with the Zephyr Farm Community. There was some singing together. […]
I want to wake up Christmas morning like Ebenezer Scrooge did and know there’s still time I want jingle bells to chime and not be drowned out by the sound of Jacob Marley’s chains I want the billionaire bah humbugs of the world to be haunted Shamed by Christmas ghosts into epiphanies of conscience I […]
1. This is a teaser of a story soon to appear in The Floyd Press on The HOMETOWN BALLAD SWAP FUNDRAISER FOR MARSHALL NC at The Floyd Country Store on Saturday: Before turning the stage over to the eight generational ballad singers of Madison County, Josh Copus spoke of the devastation that the flood caused […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on December 12, 2024. Taken by photographer Rich Cox.
I was never the golden girl but I wove a dreamcatcher with golden thread and crossed a threshold through a golden door in a young woman’s dream I never believed in a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but I knew the golden rule was a goal to value I didn’t seek […]
1. Like a heartbeat keeps time / and a life leaves a sign / I make note of the landmarks / and count myself alive – From my poem The Moving Target HERE. 2. I just finished watching the memorial service for my friend singer/songwriter/actor Elizabeth McCommon on youtube and a slide show of memories […]
1. Over the years, our resident Santa has become part of the family. 2. We were so much younger then. 3. Our Santa is a swinger. 4. He doesn’t mind cold weather. 5. He knows if you’ve been bad or good. 6. He’s jolly good with kids. 6. Everyone likes to pose with him. 7. […]
While kids catch candy in mid-air. This year’s Floyd Christmas Parade may have been themed “Small Town Unity,” but Grinches still got towed away. This boy kept yelling at this Grinch, “I’m mad at you. I’m mad at you,” until the Grinch offered him a peace offering. Show me that smile. Parades bring the girl […]
