Big hair, MTV and mothering babies. That’s what the 80’s were to me. And then came a move to the country, a first marriage ended and a new love was found. It was a time for community, for creating our own celebrations, for home-made, home-schooled and the harmonic convergence. We learned to grow and preserve [...]
Another highlight of the Ketch and Critter show at the Floyd Country Store last weekend was the deep dish home-made apple pie that I had during intermission. It was so good, heated and served with vanilla ice cream that I stopped to get another slice to-go when I was in town on Sunday dropping off [...]
Mighty Shakey played at the UBAN dance benefit to Keep the Ban on Uranium mining in VA at Dogtown/Sun Music Hall in Floyd. Watch a Shadow Shot Sunday video HERE a blues number HERE and Michael and Kari Kovick singing Michael’s new song about clean water HERE.
She complimented me on how I looked, told me I was stubborn and didn’t receive help well. She asked if I was hard of hearing. Her voice was weak. It was after midnight and my processing time was slow. She told me not to stand too close or talk too fast, asked me to wash [...]
Christian Breeder, of American Dumpster and Floydfest fire-breathing dragon wagon fame, narrated a space landing at Dogtown Roadhouse on New Year’s Eve. In a spectacle reminiscent of a down home Cirque de Soleil, we watched as Breeder, in his best his best Leonard Cohen meets Bob Dylan meets the Crash Test Dummies meets Tom Waits [...]
When Jack Wall and Kamala Bauers first walked the 75-acre mountain property that would become the home of the Floyd Eco-Village, they saw the site as an opportunity to fulfill their shared vision of living off the land with others in a multi-generational intentional community focused on energy efficiency and sustainable agriculture. The couple’s interests [...]
Walking on the rows of our garden like an astronaut looking for life on the moon, I discover a few volunteer kale plants that have survived the morning frost. I transplant them into the cold frame, pick a batch of remay-covered Swiss chard and harvest what’s left of the parsnips with a shovel, soaking [...]
He was thirsty, so we climbed the long winding stairway to the birds-eye view top of the Black Water Loft. I lifted him up to the bar, where he sat like a little man while the barista blended his fruit smoothie, apple and banana, peaches and berries. Whenever I’m at the Loft I feel compelled [...]
I don’t do Halloween costumes as much as I do “get-ups.” A hat, a wig, a prop (and it all has to be something I can dance in) is usually enough to get me into a Halloween party unrecognized. This year I went to two dance parties dressed kind of poet/punk. When people asked about [...]
~The following appeared in The Floyd Press on October 20, 2011 A group of citizens gathered in the Warren Lineberry Park Saturday to show their support for Occupy Wall Street (OWS), the ongoing protest of corporate greed and influence that began in New York City four weeks ago. Rallies in solidarity of the OWS protesters [...]
Is the grandpa keeping up with the kids or are the kids keeping up with the grandpa?
My weekend has gone at the speed of light with two dances at the Pine Tavern and three stories covered for the local paper. The Rhythm Fire dancers were busy too. The band pictured here is not Wildfire. It’s Wildlife. Other Sunday shadow shots are HERE.
Thanks to our tea party hostess Katherine and happy birthday to Jayn!
Watch a video of the Back Porch Cloggers performing at Floyd’s Harvest Festival and County Fair HERE. Another of Bernie Coveney and Chris Luster entertaining fair attendees is HERE. Some of the above photos were published in this week’s local paper. That’s my friend Builder Bob in the blue ribbon photo.
Fire Dancers from the Rhythm Fire Dance Company opened the show for 7 Walkers Thursday night below Dogtown’s Sun Hall in the Warren Lineberry Park. Led by teacher and Rhythm Fire Dance Company founder/director Ilima Ursomarso, the belly dancers, performed with fire cups, fire fans and fire sticks. Ilima danced with a fire hoop. [...]
I practically had a conversation with Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann. I mean I was that close and he smiled. And I never stopped smiling. Or dancing. In the spirit of Jerry Garcia and the rest of the “7 Walkers looking down from heaven” (taken from one of their new song’s lyrics), the band 7 [...]
They come to fill buckets and pans, canning jars, freezer bags, pie crusts, and always, the everwaiting tongue. They come to visit and eat, to sate the hungers of loneliness and body. Though we offer only blueberries, they come wanting more. They come from the American Dream—CEOs and wealthy realtors, two kids piling out of [...]
At William Walter’s performance at the Sun Music Hall Friday night, I learned about live looping and discovered I was able to dance pretty freely with one arm in a sling. Recovering from a fracture in my forearm, I wore the sling because the place was crowded and I didn’t want my arm to get [...]
