This is the time of year that the screens go back up on our windows and the porch picnic table gets covered with a red and white checkered table cloth. It’s also the time of year when I can’t keep my hands clean. The red clay of Virginia outlines my cuticles, and my nails are […]
My idea of a great job would be writing the sayings on valentine heart candy, or coming up with the names for lipstick or paint colors, but I know even that would get boring. I can’t think of anything that I like enough to want to do it over and over, day in and out. […]
I live in a one stoplight town. I get my honey from the woman who works the front desk at the Community Action Center and my fresh eggs from the Gralla-Shwartz family. Some of the egg shells are actually light green and the cartons have feathers and pieces of hay in them. I also grow […]
My voice has been silenced, but I can still tap my fingers – one for YES and two for NO… For 3 days now, my Outlook Express Email program has been acting hauntingly peculiar. Some of the emails I receive have been blank – empty – nothing in them. And most all the messages I […]
Last fall I got a message on my answering machine from a woman named Ellen Smith. She was thanking me for something I had written. I can’t remember if it was The Jim and Dan Stories, a political commentary, or something else. She said she was from North Carolina and left no return phone number. […]
My Asheville, North Carolinian, potter son, Josh, who is also a closet super-hero, turned me on to New Castle Beer, a dark but not Guinness dark beer made in Great Britain. Around the same time he showed off – what he would call “flash treads” or more informally “kicks” – his new pair of New […]
Ed Wilhelm: I moved to Floyd County in 1985 and immediately got involved in the production of the “Museletter,” a locally published forum that includes event listings, poetry, columns, and more. Back then it was called The ERC Newsletter and was, as it remains to this day, supported mostly by Floyd’s “alter-natives.” It was Ed, […]
