1. Hanging Out 2. Homeward Bound 3. Got Your Back 4. Look Ma No Hands Thanksgiving in Outer Space: My sister Trish’s astronaut brother-in-law (and my one time wedding party escort at her wedding) has emailed a second batch of photos from space shuttle Endeavour’s space station mission. The latest update from NASA is that [...]
The love you take is equal to the love you make ~ The Beatles Not long after my second son, Dylan (left), was born in 1982, I was proudly walking him in the baby carriage with his two year old brother Josh (right) by my side. I remember feeling like I had struck it rich. [...]
1. When I posed the idea of writing a story on the new Floyd-based Natural Awakenings magazine to the publisher, she said, “Can I buy you a cup of coffee?” I answered, “Sure, as long as it’s tea.” 2. I knew we were speaking the same language when during the interview I asked her how [...]
~ The following was published in the fall 2008 issue of the Floyd Compass, a newsprint visitor’s guide. When Kari and Michael Kovick moved their family from Durham, North Carolina, to Floyd in 1999, they were following a dream: to live a more natural lifestyle and to do what they love. What they love is [...]
I joked at the last Spoken Word Open Mic that I write an inch of poetry to my friend Mara’s yard. Not only is she a more prolific poet than me but she can memorize her poetry and perform it like nobody’s business. Below is my poetic inch of a contribution for the month of [...]
1. Breakfast in Space 2. Don’t forget to brush. 3. The Class Picture (notice the astronauts holding themselves down and the woman astronaut’s hair flying up). 4. Gravity-free Recess Post notes: The above photos were emailed to my sister Trish whose brother-in-law is Astronaut Stephen Bowen (pictured in the first photo on the right). Stephen [...]
Colleen to Katherine, Zephyr Farm neighbor: “Hey, can I bring an apple crisp to Thanksgiving dinner this year? Joe and I have gone apple picking twice this season and we have apples all over the house.”
Writing is a struggle between presence and absence. Inspiration enters at the border between hard work and laziness. ~ Lu Ji Joe: Did you get your new story sketched out yet? Colleen: Sometimes a great first line will come on its own and I can jump off from there. But if that doesn’t happen I [...]
1. Why did my sister Trish Bowen, who I think looks like Meg Ryan, model a T-shirt on Fox News on her birthday? See the video clip answer HERE. 2. The photo posted below appeared in The Boston Herald yesterday and is of Trish (front and center), her husband Danny, her sons Matthew (left) and [...]
The water in the dog’s bowl froze. I spotted my first snow shovel at the Floyd Elementary School when I was there as one of the judges for Reflections, a literary and art contest. My favorite part of this photo is the matchbox car on the bench and how in my twisted mind I can [...]
Snow flurries. Cold wind whips. We pull up our goose down hoods. Joe shakes the tree like it’s a piñata full of gifts. Red apples tumble to the ground. I run to collect them like a girl on Christmas morning, marveling at the magic of each one. Joe looks like Santa as he heads up [...]
We were short on chairs and long on readers at November’s Spoken Word Open Mic. A record-breaking twenty readers performed to an overflowing enthusiastic crowd. Rose and the crew at the Blackwater Loft did a great job accommodating the last minute change in venue (due to a concert in the hall adjacent to the Café [...]
I had a reason to want to watch the space shuttle take-off from the Kennedy Space Center on Youtube last night. One of the astronauts on board, Stephen Bowen, is my youngest sister Trish’s brother-in-law. Stephen was my wedding party escort at Trish’s wedding in 1991. Back then, we joked about my being a Peace [...]
Serving up savory haiku and sips of poetic brew, wave after wave of words to lull and awaken, to soothe or inspire. TEAPOET is a new 28 page chapbook by Colleen Redman, available around town in Floyd or by mail. Send $6 plus $1 shipping and handling to 151 Ridge Haven Road, Floyd, VA, 24091. [...]
1. Me on the phone with my son Dylan, father of 6 month old Bryce: “After a couple of weeks I can’t stop thinking about Bryce, and I need to see him.” Dylan: “I know. That happens to me everyday at work.” 2. Me to Joe: “Is it pathetic that the highlight of my day [...]
The following was published in The Floyd Press on November 13, 2008. Floyd County Moonshine is described on the publication’s MySpace page as “Floyd’s first Literary and Arts Magazine.” Its editor, Aaron Moore, is a graduate of Floyd County High School, Radford University, and is currently a graduate student of Literature at Florida State University. [...]
His Jacket says Winnie the POOH and his pants say BOO. He ate his first apple without swallowing a bite HERE. See what else six-month old (on Friday) Bryce can do HERE.
Stream of clarity flows from an orange pekoe sea a leafy twig floats Note: Click and scroll down HERE for more teapoet poems.
