Signs That the Grandkids Were Here
Shadow Shot Sunday
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Archive for June, 2014
Classical Music in the Mountains
The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 12, 2014. The Virginia Blue Ridge Music Festival (VBRMF) began its 2014 weekend program with a horn performance at the Floyd Community Market, adding a festive note to the downtown Jamboree street scene Friday evening. A Family Concert, dubbed From Baroque to Billy Joel, was […]
13 Thursday Time
1. Does a Finch get its name because it’s a little more than an inch in size? 2. I’m a minimalist at heart. As a writer, I like to practice the conservation of language, to distill thoughts down into a potency of meaning. On the other hand, maybe I write mostly short poems because I’m […]
50/50 Sky
Driving home from Christiansburg yesterday I watched cloud continents collide. Light and dark confronted each other, storm threatened shapes like Italy and England dissolved into thin air and even the moon got chased. Skywatch Friday
Showtime!
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 […]
FCHS Graduation Favorites
It was an overflow crowd at the high school gymnasium for FloydCountyHigh School’s Class of 2014 Graduation Ceremonies. Principal Tony Deilber welcomed wall-to-wall attendees and addressed seniors, saying, “You have proven your ability to learn … I know you’ll make a great mark on the world.” Class President Lindsey Janney began her speech from the […]
Flight Risk
Shadow Shot Sunday
Play of Night
It’s a June moon suspended in the sky waiting for a poet’s push to swing it
The 13 Thursday Trap
1. I just realized that the word PROP could be spelled like “PR-OP,” meaning a PR (public relations) -Op. 2. I was thinking that the song The Parting Glass, sung at Floyd’s 2014 high school graduation should have been called The Parting Class. But glass works too, as in “here’s to you.” 3. My screen […]
Postcards From Floyd
Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday
A Poetry Reading Roll
First there was the new Artemis poetry reading launch, hosted by two Floyd editors and featuring the legendary Nikki Giovanni (which I wrote about HERE), and then, a week later, Floyd County Moonshine contributors read at the Floyd library. Between these two fine literary/art publications and the two reading events, along with the fact that […]
