~ The following was published in the fall 2008 issue of the Floyd Compass, a newsprint visitor’s guide. When Kari and Michael Kovick moved their family from Durham, North Carolina, to Floyd in 1999, they were following a dream: to live a more natural lifestyle and to do what they love. What they love is […]
What do you do when you’re at a classical music concert in a front row seat with the lights turned up high and you have a sudden urge to write poetry? You want to pull out paper and pen but the crowd is so quietly absorbed in listening that you could hear the pen drop […]
~ The following was published in the Floyd Press on 7/3/08 “Not bad for someone with a bad ankle,” I said to my friend Ed, referring to the fact that I had danced for two hours to Laura Reed and Deep Pocket, in spite of a recent injury. The Asheville-based band played to an enthusiastic […]
I wasn’t able to attend their concert at the Winter Sun Hall last night, but I did meet up with the Mamas today for some puppy petting at the Humane Society’s 6th annual “Stand up for Strays,” where I was taking photos for the Floyd Press. And Joe and I hooked them up for some […]
It was like a scene out of Tom Wolfe’s book The Electric Koolaid Acid Test, like the filming of a Merry Prankster adventure. It was a “Vision Quest,” in the form of a film by local artist Starroot, premiered at the June Bug Center’s Black Box Theater last night. Filmed and directed by Cameron […]
AKA: Can we have a Word? 1. A Blog Quote Contest: Blogtations, a site that posts daily quotes taken from blogs, is hosting a Mother’s Day Quote Contest, of which I am one of the judges. The deadline to submit your best saying about Motherhood, taken from your blog, is May 2. The winner will […]
Johanna is my son Josh’s peer, a Blue Mountain School alumni, Floyd High School salutatorian, a young German-born woman that many of us here in Floyd watched grow up. She’s getting married on the summer solstice. Forgoing a wedding shower, or even the traditional Floyd Blessingway, she requested a Machitun, a shamanic drumming healing […]
How strange is it that on the same day I posted a blog entry about my father, titled Sentimental Journey, I attended an event in the evening that was also called a Sentimental Journey? The emphasis on the second SentiMENTAL Journey was on the word MENTAL. It was a benefit concert at the Floyd Country […]
The Following appeared in the regional newspaper insert “All About Her” in January 08. Coriander Woodruff has been her own kind of musician since she was a toddler making drums from empty coffee cans. When she was ten years old, she heard a segment on NPR radio about GarageBand, a software program that features a […]
The following was published in The Floyd Press on January 24, 2008. Bernie Coveney – who has played with Grammy award winner Emmylou Harris, contributed to the soundtrack of King of the Gypsies, and taught Robert Duval how to play guitar for his role in Tender Mercies – has just released a first CD […]
The following was published in The Floyd Press on December 6, 2007. Roberta Flack meets Bob Marley, that’s how I first described the music of Emily Brass when she was lead singer for the popular Floyd-based band, Foundation Stone. Back then I considered Foundation Stone to be a hometown “house band.” They regularly played at […]
It was a final Farewell Memorial for Elliot, the poet and one of the founding members of the Floyd Writer’s Circle who passed away in November two years ago. The tribute was expressed through spontaneous performance art involving his T-shirt collection. I was having a conversation with my friend Kathleen’s fiancé, Wayne, about The Epic […]
