1. You know you’re in Floyd when your husband gets thanked for connecting someone to a day’s work with a bag of homegrown garlic and I get thanked for writing a story about a local dancer with a hula hoop she made. 2. A silver-lining to the bad economy? Interestingly, during the worst of the [...]
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Delicate or robust Hinting fruit, nut or flower Every good cup starts with boiling water ________________________ Note: Read more teapoems HERE.
Fresh off a plane ride from Boston (where it hasn’t snowed yet), I stopped at Winterfest at the Jacksonville Center to take some pictures for the local paper, but vendors were closing down early because of the snow and I didn’t even get to see Santa. All fun was not lost though. Ilima Ursomarso surprised [...]
Christmas carols at Logan airport are blaring so loudly that the imagined sound of my mother’s whistle calling for assistance is buried in the background. My hands smell of coffee, dried prunes and soap. It’s 9 a.m. and I’ve been up since 4. My mother is fragile and one of my brothers is still drinking. [...]
~ The following was published in the November issue of Natural Awakenings of Southwest Virginia magazine For two decades Floyd potter Jayn Avery lived completely off the grid. The country home where she and her partner raised their two daughters was built in 1929 by a local farmer for his bride’s parents. It had no [...]
1. Last week during Thanksgiving-time every time I tried to type google my hands slipped and it came out gobble. 2. Driving to my brother’s house for Thanksgiving dinner we had to brake for a flock of turkeys crossing the street. 3. When my camera battery is low and blinks I can usually get about [...]
Note: The above photos were all taken at the annual Thanksgiving bonfire in Hull, Massachusetts.
