What’s Wrong with This Picture?
A Fallen Star A Close Encounter Bug-eyed An Eye Opener
"A blog is to a writer what a canvas is to an artist." ~ Colleen Redman
Archive for April, 2009
The Old Church Gallery Quilter’s Guild
~ The following was published in The Floyd Press on March 26, 2009. As the Old Church Gallery Quilter’s Guild membership has grown so has the size of their meeting locations. Formed in 1986 as a part of The Old Church Gallery, the quilters outgrew the gallery’s original Presbyterian Church location. They met at the [...]
Five Miles of Separation
As a brain-based educator who developed an educational program on slavery, who speaks to her Avatar by way of meditation and facilitates group dialogue in communities, author Judy O’Brien has a stranger than fiction background. The spiritual journey she recounts in her autobiographical book “The Way of the Mystic” is compelling, but I was even [...]
Hold on to Your Potato Chips
Loud gusts of wind on the Blue Ridge Parkway sound like breakers on the shore. They make blades of grass quiver and hikers hold on to their hats. Spread out on a picnic blanket with my head propped on my bent arm, I watch a hawk surf the cloudless blue sky while my friend eats [...]
Going Green
Spreading the Wealth Weeping Willow The Other Side of the Fence
13 on a Wet Trampoline
1. I just got asked to a do a writing assignment via a Facebook Instant message. 2. So of course I asked the subject of the proposed interview in a Facebook Instant message if he want to meet me. 3. I named this week’s Thirteen Thursday for THIS video clip. 4. I recently read a [...]
When Words Run Out
When there are no A B C’s no L M N O P’s Don’t waste words They don’t grow on trees
