-The following first appeared in the Floyd Times on June 23, 2026. Floyd CARE (Community Action for Racial Equity) celebrated its 6th annual Juneteenth Celebration in the Warren Lineberry Park on Saturday. The event featured speakers, dance music by Jerome Claytor and Touch of Class, gospel songs by the Little River Missionary Baptist Church singers […]
About 50 people came out to support the Floyd Times, Floyd’s independent, nonpartisan, non-profit news source that delivers local news and highlights a wide range of community voices. The first online edition was launched in August 2025 and currently publishes weekly and prints paper copies approximately once a month. The fundraising power hour was part […]
1. We named our road Morning Dew after the Jerry Garcia song, but we should have called it Rhododendron Road. 2. I think of the below as wallpaper 3. Off the grid or off the wall? 4. Oh, Obama. 5. This (on the right) is my 18 year-old grandson Bryce pointing at Bryce Canyon […]
I watched the perennial flowers bloom one species after another I watched the corn tassel and ate greens by the bowlful everyday I heard the windchimes sing and fed my neighborhood birds I met fireflies at dusk sewed clothes on the porch and washed the kitchen curtains I walked the rhododendron dirt roads in the […]
It’s a Wildlife. That’s the name of the band. This never happened before. They stole the show. We all got our smiles back dancing at Dogtown to Wildlife, Richie Ursomarso and the best of MRCO. Richie, who sang a song about getting his smile back, was a mentor to some of the MRCO members when […]
Water drips into an empty bowl when you live in your mind and your body is tired A dream collects bit by bit and then the rain erodes it I like sad songs that can make me cry a rhyme implied and a reason brought to light I like birdsong in every poem I like […]
1. After three days of the high energy at the Floyd Little River Poetry Festival, that was preceded by a blockbuster first Floyd Small Town Summer, I went home to live a solo life, since Joe is on a month-long cross-country road trip with our grandsons. 2. After a few days of being home alone, […]
The first Small Town Summer event of the season brought the community and some out-of-town visitors together for a fun-filled, free event in the Warren Lineberry Park on June 4th. Amid ideal summertime weather, featured live music performers Caitlin Krisko & The Broadcast and Hoppie Vaughan & The Ministers of Soul entertained the overflow […]
1. Here I am fangirling these talented quilting sisters who I wrote a story about for the Floyd Times. Read more HERE. 2. And here I am, being fangirled in the middle of these mostly young poets who were showing me some love and asked me to pose with them as one of their Little […]
-The following first appeared in the Floyd Times on June 3, 2026. The Epperly sisters are on a mission. Since 1991, the six sisters have been spending a weekend in May together and using their talents as quilters to raise money for cancer research. Clara-Tibby Martin tells the story: “We are all quilt makers, taught […]
When your book photo looks better than the real thing because you’re late for your own reading… and your first! I was followed by a fabulous foursome. Poets read poems from their phones. Sometimes they hold signs. Paper is still acceptable… and sometimes preferable. Poets have the best t-shirts. It’s not a competition but… We […]
1. Hat’s off to my grandson Bryce who graduated from high school last week. It was the highlight of the month of May for our family. Watch HERE. 2. Last Thursday, I was fangirling these Epperly ladies (pictured below), renowned quilters who make a quilt together each year to benefit the American Cancer Society … […]
