“I want Morgan Griffith to put his principles before party. I want him to put people before politics. I want the Republicans to stop trying to take away everything our tax payer dollars is going for that are used for us… our roads, our schools, everything. They’re trying to privatize the entire government so our […]
1. The Scrabble players are in the house, The Book House that is. 2. Yesterday I had to google ‘how to open Talenti Gelato?’ 3. Every day there’s a new breaking story that’s like another nail in our country’s coffin. 4. Happiness is a spectrum that includes saddness. 5. “It is not an easy assignment, […]
1. Mantra: Between wave and particle / its existence is in flux / like a pesky fly abuzz / its placement isn’t fixed 2. When we were on Siesta Key Beach earlier this month, I told Joe that I wanted to die on the beach, to be bundled up on a lounge chair in the […]
I celebrated St. Patrick’s Day Eve in my shamrock scarf with a front row seat to a Virginia Blue Ridge Music Festival Celtic Celebration concert. It featured accomplished violinist and fiddler Katherine Wiley on fiddle, David Scheim on harp and piano, Geoffrey Saur on small pipes and bagpipes and Ash Devine singing vocals. It was […]
The gold of age is a rich harvest that’s born in darkness and brought to light. Mining the gold of the inner life is a living practice with a guiding seam and a deepening to forge. And what will you spend your gold on? Your time, your life? Every person’s inner gold accrues interest when […]
1. Wherever we go and whenever we’re on vacation, I look for Botanical Gardens to visit. 2. We hit the jackpot when we found that the Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Fla was featuring an exhibition on George Harrison’s life as a gardener with vignettes recreated from his Frair Park estate. 3. The first exhibit […]
It was The Kind’s 39th anniversary show and all the current and past band members mixed it up. Dancing to The Kind at South Main Café in Blacksburg was some of Joe’s and my first dates, and the band’s 39th anniversary nearly coincides with Joe’s and my anniversary of meeting, which was 38 years ago. […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on March 6, 2025 Emotions ran high at the recent Ninth District “Traveling Staff Office” gathering, where Floyd County constituents were invited to make comments and ask questions to be relayed to Congressman Morgan Griffith, who was not in attendance. There was a general consensus expressed by […]
1. Siesta Key is known for its powder white sand. 2. For some it’s a bucket list beach. 3. It’s so white it looks like snow. 4. Visiting in winter is like trading snow for sand. 5. There are so many gulls on the beach that at first glance they can look like litter. 6. […]
1. We had to google the word “medallion” as it refers to steak. 2. We didn’t order bacon. 3. We saw something unexpected. 4. We didn’t swing from the chandelier. 5. But we did cut loose on the dance floor later that night. 6. Spring in Rock Castle Gorge. 7. I’m into it. 8. Anybody […]
