We’re losing our minds and acting our age with an honest delving into the expanding horizon that comes with the narrowing of life. We’re working on it. It’s a trio this time. Katherine Chantal and I will be joined by Mary Wiley for our next Soulful Aging poetry reading. We might forget a name but […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on February 10, 2022. About two dozen community members turned out to listen to the poetry of Colleen Redman and Katherine Chantal on Sunday during the duo’s first event of their Soulful Aging Tour. Hosted by the Jessie Peterman, Redman and Chantal read from their recently published […]
What a great and warm audience Katherine and I had for our first Soulful Aging Tour reading at the Jessie Peterman Library yesterday. I even had a family member surprise me! Below is a sampling of video clips of the event taken by my sweet husband Joe. Look for a story in The Floyd Press […]
Reveries of Aging: Aka Losing Our Minds is the fourth installment of the Soulful Aging Tour, the call-and-response poetry readings that Katherine Chantal and Colleen Redman have been doing since the winter of 2022 at various regional venues, including at Radford University, Little River Poetry Festival, Yoga Jam, Jessie Peterman Library, the Soup Shop and […]
We’re tourists to our own aging / We’ve never been here before / We take field notes and pictures / and watch the other travelers / We cross our fingers / and look for simple pleasures / We count our blessings / give away our belongings / enjoy the view from the scenic route… C. […]
1. “Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life.” -Susan David, PhD 2. And if I’m ever confined to a bed in a room / I hope my grandson plays Led Zepplin on guitar / His brother can cook me noodles and teriyaki vegetables / while we up the ante in poker and […]
1. Because of my dyscalculia, Joe says, “If you were a band your name would be “Wrong Direction” instead of “One Direction.” 2. The new goal of my poetry readings is: “Reading Poetry that Jack Has Never Heard.” 3. I’ve read with carpenter poet Jack Callan at his Fairmount Five readings in Norfolk, as one […]
1. George Santos is the Anna Sorokin of politics. 2. I just did my first online Zoom poetry reading with a group of dVerse poets from around the world. It was a good experience and the host was wonderful, but it was a little like contra dancing as opposed to free style dance. I love […]
Colleen Redman grew up as one of nine siblings on a peninsula in the South Shore of Boston, MA during the ‘50s – ‘60s. Since 1991, she has lived with her husband in a cabin off the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd, a rural Virginia county known for its mountain culture, roots music, small […]
The following 2021 review was done by excerpting the first line or few in one post from each month last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January: The snow we got at the New Year was like frosting that covered everything and made me wonder where the […]
1. Who says “za” for pizza? No one I know, but it’s a word you can use when playing Scrabble. 2. If I Have to Die 3. Today’s poetry was paper trash / Unrequited loves that broke my heart / Teased out lines written in circles / Big ideas that fell flat – From I […]
The kleenex box got passed around the classroom a few times at the Radford University Death and Bereavement class where Katherine Chantal and I were recently guests, sharing our Grief and Relief, Soulful Aging Poetry to counseling students. Professor Alan Forrest was our host, and it wasn’t the first time I had been a featured […]
