1. Since I started doing the 13 Thursday I’ve been on the lookout for opportunities to photograph 13 images, but due to the superstition surrounding the number, it hasn’t been easy. There is no #13 floor in most buildings, no #13 seat on planes. No airport gates. No #13 room in most hotels. 2. Evidently, […]
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” — Nelson Mandela What do you believe? Is it true? In an effort to examine her belief systems and better understand what divides us, Rachel Pickett has taken to the road to talk to […]
If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else. ~ Nikki Giovanni Years ago, I audited a creative writing class at Virginia Tech, taught by renowned poet Nikki Giovanni. I remember my excitement when I learned the word “audit” and what it meant, apart from its IRS context: that you could sit in […]
1. Peaceful 2. Fragile 3. Distant 4. Impermanence 5. Nostalgic Photos: 1. A floater at Great Oaks Country Club in Floyd. 2. Gone to seed plant in my yard. 3. Buffalo Moutain as shot from The Saddle on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd, Virginia. 4. Sand castles at Bethany Beach, Delaware. 5. Aging sunflower […]
This is a photo of me at a Scrabble game yesterday, talking on the phone with my blogger friend, Naomi of “Here in the Hills.” I’m at the Café Del Sol in Floyd, Virginia, and she was calling from Los Angeles. Here’s the story: Mara called to cancel our Scrabble game at the Café Del […]
Mara says what she likes best about me is how easy I am to please like when she showed me how to make Celtic borders in Microsoft Word I clapped my hands and cheered And when she said – while looking up a word playing scrabble – The dictionary always distracts me I giggled and […]
1. Last Thursday was the one year anniversary (52 weeks) of “Thirteen Thursday,” which was created by Leanne at Intricate Art. It marked my 43rd Thirteen Thursday post. I’m thinking about putting out a best of 13. You know, like musicians put of a “best of” album. 2. Did you know that you could buy […]
The Garden: The entrance is blocked with overgrown rows … I walk on cucumbers and cherry tomatoes. ~ Colleen I should be in the garden. There’s basil to pick for making pesto, onions to braid, and Japanese beetles to kill. All the corn comes in at once. I know it’s ripe when the ear worms […]
AKA: In the Pink 1. Flighty 2. Fickle 3. Been Around the Block 4. New Kid on the Block
“As someone who is 5 foot and 1 inch, I sometimes wonder what I might have done with all the time I’ve spent hemming pants and skirts if I didn’t have to do it. Maybe if I was taller, I would have read more of the classics.” ~ Colleen I’ve been thinking about books all […]
Many of the best moments in my life have happened spontaneously. Last weekend at Floyd Fest was no different. Julie Hauserman, a Florida-based journalist and radio personality (pictured here), happened to be camping across the path from the Floyd Fest Poet Tree, a volunteer soap box stage for spoken word readings, located under an apple […]
The arts and homespun wares featured at Floyd Fest this year included handmade hammocks, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, leather goods, clothes, birdhouses, and hula hoops. There was even a booth with a cider press selling freshly made apple cider. Although I enjoyed window shopping and sampling Floyd Fest’s creative bounty, I believe it was my […]
