-The following was first published in the Floyd Times on October 25, 2025 Murder and Mayhem continue this weekend at the June Bug Center with The New River Theatre Guild’s performance of Arsenic and Old Lace, a perfect play for the Halloween season. Weekend performances have been well received and continue for October 31 at […]
1. Over the weekend I went to cover an event undercover. That means I have no assignment or obligation to write about it, but I might. 2. And I did. In the last week, I have covered a No Kings protest, a cemetery tour, a ribbon cutting, a play and a rally with Virginia candidate […]
The following was first published on at Floyd Times on October 21, 2025. Approximately 300 citizens gathered around the Floyd Courthouse on Saturday for the NO KINGS DAY 2.0 rally to protest the executive overreach of our country’s current administration and to stand up for democracy. American flags were flying and participants held homemade signs […]
The field lies fallow Words are buried like seed, I pray Dreams are frayed at their edges This poem is late like a loved one passed on A treasured habit changing its form I hold it like a memory close to my chest A lost locket with a missing chain I cross my fingers and […]
1. I fall for it every year. 2. Red roasted day / Breeze spreads like butter / Chimes celebrate / fall’s feast of color 3. “Stanford researchers just found that when “aligned” AIs compete for attention, sales, or votes, they start lying, exposing a fundamental flaw where models trained to win user approval trade truth […]
The following first appeared in Floyd Times on October 15, 2025. Downtown Floyd was a hub of activity on Saturday for the sixth annual Floyd Americana Fest. Four stages – at Outer Space, Dogtown Roadhouse, Warren Lineberry Park and Cocoa Mia – hosted an ongoing roster of performances by local and regional musicians throughout the […]
A Spy Code A Poet’s MO to link and illuminate to dream while awake It’s an artful convergence of description and truth A superimposition of almost and absolute ________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
1. Here I am, a speck dancing near the stage with a giant rubber ducky at Saturday’s Floyd American Fest. Video HERE. Story coming soon… 2. My friend Alan (founder of the Americana Fest) performed an original song called “If God was a Spider and I was a Flea.” So now, whenever I see a […]
-The following first appeared in Floyd Times on October 8, 2025. The Annual Floyd Arts & Crafts Festival is one of the most well-attended events in the county. With approximately 180 vendors, Saturday’s festival filled two Floyd County High School gymnasiums and spread out onto the school grounds, making it a hub of activity and […]
1. Monarch rhymes with hierarch, the high authority of sacred matters. 2.Treed-In: I once loved an apple tree / filled with red fruit / in a hidden orchard in Eden / But now the maple trees / have grown large / They block out the sun / There’s no room to stretch / Now the […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 28, 2025. Katherine Chantal’s solo sojourn on the West Coast of Ireland produced an 87-page travel memoir of poetry, some of which she recently shared with an audience for an Irish Night of poetry and music at the Floyd Country Store. Chantal’s readings followed three […]
1. In America we call girls chicks. In the UK they are birds. 2. On Sunday we put the garden to bed. 3. We let the chickens in the garden to scratch, which led me to say, ‘they’re scratching the lottery for bugs.” 4. Some hit the jackpot. 5. Some were ready for a close-up. […]
