It happened at the tail end of the Floyd Family Day Jubilee. At first I thought I was at the wrong dance when they started playing “Don’t Worry Be Happy” instead of Pharrell Williams’ contagious song, but that turned out to just be the warm-up song. I tried to get dancers to drop buckets of […]
We were encouraged to wear hats for the vintage-styled wedding of our dear ones, Leia and Orion. It was a good thing too, because of the overcast and drizzle. “The next best thing to a wig,” I told my friend Chris, who just happens to be from England. “You can just put it on and […]
The following are video clip highlights from the annual Firefly Fling fundraiser for Floyd’s Rising Sun Community School, a Montessori-based natural learning school. Last year’s video clips are HERE. Story and photos are coming up in the this week’s Floyd Press.
We were windswept on a mountain hilltop that we all agreed looked like Ireland. There was a quote by Donovan, a handfasting and Sufi dancing. The wedding benches were handmade by the groom and given as gifts to the musicians whose heartfelt playing and singing brought tears to my eyes. The grapevine arbors and archways […]
Wordless Wednesday
Well, they’ve only been open for little over a month, so it’s no wonder they’re one of the best kept secrets in Floyd. I tried it out yesterday for the first time (got there right before they closed) and found you can fill your spoon at the Fat Spoon with some of the tastiest food […]
Aka: So Many Boyfriends I’m not good at estimating numbers, but Joe thought there were about 300 people at the Chantilly Farm outdoor screening of Geographically Desirable, a romantic comedy that was filmed in D.C. and Floyd. It must have been a sizeable group because when the writer/filmmaker, Mike Kravinsky, stood in front of the […]
At the year end Blue Mountain High School student presentations, Alex used charts to demonstrate his studies on biology and the human anatomy. Talking about the function of the heart, he said, “It’s a common myth that blood is blue when it’s deoxygenated. It’s actually a dark purple and just looks blue through a white […]
Nikki Giovanni has style, not only as a poet and in the way she conducts herself, but in her appearance. In this case, as the guest of honor at the re-launching of the literary art journal Artemis, it was from head to toe. She was sporting some stylish cornrows and shiny blue shoes. I didn’t […]
Acupuncture, carrot cake, putt putt golf and ballroom dancing, all against the backdrop of garden dirt-lined fingers tapping at the keyboard, a browser that kept wanting to crash, a black snake in the chicken coop and a mystery culprit that kept emptying the birdfeeder of every last drop of seed. I really don’t know how […]
First I was captivated by the Captive Eddies when they played Thursday night at Dogtown Roadhouse. Then on Friday Spoon Fight dished up some rockin’ dance tunes. I think of the Captive Eddies as Beatlesque meet Bob Marley. The lead singer even looks like George Harrison (as does his twin brother). On tour, and in-between […]
This was the first time that the Floyd County High School senior prom was held at the Floyd EcoVillage, an elegant venue that includes the Celebration Hall, the Conversation Café and a spacious lobby that looks out onto a pond. It was a masquerade theme with all the fixings. There was even a red carpet, […]
