My living room window is like a wide screen TV where I’m watching the Saturday morning snow show. Wood smoke pours down from the chimney and floats in and out of the downy flurry. Birds hop and peck at the seed below the feeder. Tree limbs catch flakes. Inside where it’s toasty warm, water pipes [...]
1. Flight Risk 2. Down and Out 3. Santa’s Big Hangover 4. Brighter Days Ahead
1. Joe, leaves the house, kisses Colleen and says: “See you later, sweet pea.” Colleen kisses Joe back and answers: “If I’m a pea, then you’re a pie, as in sweetie pie.” 2. My poem “After the Golden Globes and in honor of Valentine Day” has been published at Ronni Bennett’s Elder Story Telling site [...]
The moon is a mutiny a one bubble revolution escape from the sky-sea of sudsy clouds It floats across the heavens like a flower child pagan in peaceful demonstration against the status quo
~ The following was published in The Floyd Press on January 28, 2010. Those familiar with the culinary talents of Michael Gucciardo have waited five years for him to come back home to Floyd. A native New Yorker, Michael learned how to cook authentic Italian food from his father and other family members born in [...]
A Museletter mascot, a 30 year anniversary party, and a monthly crossword puzzle of Floyd County trivia were some of the ideas given at the Consensus Workshop at the library on Saturday. The workshop was facilitated by Andy Morikawa of the Community Foundation of the New River Valley to discuss the future of the Museletter, [...]
We were driven out of our house by ice escapades, laden trees dropping bombs of ice on to our roof. With a gunshot cue, they were off like a stampede of horses at the races, like ladies at Filenes Basement, like Santa’s reindeer landing his sleigh. Fireworks were exploding. Mudslides were sloshing. Limbs were breaking [...]
I got my hair done yesterday. I let my hairdresser experiment. She sprayed, straightened, twisted, pinned, and tied I told her to fix me up like I was going to the Academy Awards Now all we need are a couple of gowns. Meanwhile Kaylee’s little brother Bryce and his Opa Joe were having their own [...]
1. Quote floating around on Facebook: Is heck where people go who don’t believe in Gosh? 2. Satan responds to Pat Robertson’s claim that Haiti’s tragedy is a result of a pact they country made with the devil HERE. 3. Have you ever wondered what lives on the other side of your computer screen? Look [...]
It seems that my chances of wearing a gown on the red carpet and being mistaken for a movie star are coming to a close I’ve gone from being just a hair out of place to one lost in hive of Hollywood women stung by bees drunk with honey and swollen with time No one [...]
Saturday’s night life in downtown Floyd included a quotable line delivered by poet Mara Robbins. From the Café del Sol Spoken Word stage she announced that “Pat Robertson is to Christians what Kanye West is to musicians,” referring to Robertson’s ludicrous remark about the earthquake in Haiti being a result of the country’s pact with [...]
Too often my life feels like a landslide of clutter that I have to sort through to make sense of. Some days it takes many hands.
1. Things have finally slowed down enough around here that when Joe asked one night what I was doing the next day, the extent of my answer was: “I’m on a mission to buy broccoli.” (Translation: I need to go grocery shopping.) 2. When I woke up the next morning the first thing I said [...]
There are no cell phones on Neverland So, Wendy emails Peter to say that she’s joined a 12-step program and is sewing new curtains for the Darling home nursery “Oh, and by the way bring home some milk and bread for dinner Captain Hook is coming over,” Wendy says Peter wants a divorce but can’t [...]
The “other woman” is Wendy She’s co-dependent with Peter She’s passive-aggressive with pirates and sleeps with lost boys She threatens to leave Neverland because Peter won’t be her daddy won’t discipline the children or stop seeing Tiger Lily Wendy won’t live in Peter’s shadow She wants to wear it as her own She professes her [...]
Writing is elemental. Once you have tasted its essential life, you cannot turn from it without some deep denial and depression. It would be like turning down water. Water is in your blood. You can’t go without it. ~ Natalie Goldberg When a dark thought or a growing insecurity wakes me in the middle of [...]
~ The following year review was done by excerpting the first line in one post of each month from last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January: Only in Floyd can you be out helping a friend with disabilities collect litter and run into a neighbor who [...]
1. On the first day of the New Year my computer said this: 2010/01/01. The big decision was whether to call this New Year “two thousand and ten” or “twenty ten.” 2. Out for the benefit concert for our friend Wolf Cherrix on one of the coldest nights in Virginia history, my friend Jayn and [...]
