I knew we were in trouble when I counted four Grinches in the Floyd Christmas Parade this year. The route was also well represented with Kazim Shriner Clowns who were bound to get in a little trouble. And some clowns were grinches. I could do this whole post on the clowns. They really went to […]
Katie Wells’s one woman show, Love Letters to Humanity: A Performance of Conscious Dance Theatre, drew sell-out crowds Friday and Saturday at the Floyd Center for the Arts. It was a fundraiser for InStill Mindfulness, a local non-profit dedicated to cultivating a mindful world for all with kindness, compassion, and caring through education, action. It’s hard […]
In order to come fully to the encounter with whatever gives ultimate meaning, in order to wrestle with the angel, one must be a free agent, not defined by another, or by cultural imperatives. – Marilyn Sewell, Cries of the Spirit These days, I’ve really been living in my home. Day after day, I […]
It takes two How many are you? Mirror mirror. There’s a lot of us in here. Swoon, aka Caledonia Curry, is an artist and an installation exhibit at the Taubman Museum. Swoon is a printmaker, paper cutter, screen printer, large scale relief creator and street artist with a focus on human connection, social practice and […]
It was a lovely love shared with family and friends in the mountains of Swannanoa North Carolina. Michael and Clary exchanged their vows under the ceremonial chuppah canopy. “With you, I am learning about a deeper kind of love,” Clary shared with Michael. “I was immediately struck by your brightness,” said Michael, remembering their first […]
Like Zappa singing about dental floss, thus genre-fluid, eclectic rock ensemble played original songs about dust mites, a crab, a deer and a dolphin with a few Grateful Dead tunes thrown into the mix.
1. Don’t ghost me. 2. Take me to your banker. 3. Where Have all the Pumpkins Gone? 4. Sadly, this is the first year in about 30 that I haven’t grown my own pumpkins. It’s been harder to grow them in the last few years. I plant the seeds and they germinate fine but then […]
It was a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. And these are some of the neighbors. We rode to the Saddle Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway, the place of our wedding vows, sunsets and spectacular views. Sometimes I left Joe in the dust and reached the top first because I have an electric bicycle and […]
It was billed as Sky High Reggae in the Park, an extension of our Small Town Summer events, but the temperatures outside dropped and the live music and dancing moved inside Dogtown Roadhouse. That’s where things heated up, starting with Father Sun. Nyo Allen (15) and his father, Music Road Co’s Janiah Allen wrote and […]
What would a PRIDE event be without a Drag Show? There were actually two, but I missed the second one. Some of the performers came out into the audience. Some were not Drag Queens but were Drag Kings. There were also speakers and live music. This is Indie folk artist Amelia Empson performing for the […]
Someone mentioned The Twilight Zone. I called it an Escape Room Scavenger Hunt. After a 50-minute drive from Floyd, we arrived at the Crest Hill Tearoom in Pulaski with a reservation to celebrate our friend Katherine’s birthday, tea party style. But the reservation got mixed up and was made for another Crest Hill Tearoom in […]
