1. My husband juggles two phones and two laptops. “Next thing will be two wives,” I joked. “Three is ideal for juggling,” he answered. “Not an option,” I say. 2. I’m a nerd who spends hours taking and cropping pictures of frost on the window. See more HERE. 3. I’ve always felt that the world of […]
We put on our party dresses and tie-dye shirts. It was the 38th anniversary show with The Kind at the Parkway Brewing Company in Salem. For years the band played closer to home at The Pine Tavern for Halloween and Anniversaries, but the Pine was sold and is no longer a restaurant bar and music […]
I start with a bird and wait for a song I tap a nerve and blur a crossed line I recite the alphabet and give up logic open my notebook and lift a veil I don’t believe everything I’ve heard I tinker and linger I keep my word _______Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
1. The boat we are all in is tipping. The billionaire’s hoard of money weighs too much. 2. Going down is the route up for me. 3. Pinned and pierced / Fear unmasked / The arrow’s tip / like a scalpel cuts / It opens the path / to a phantom bullet / and lifts […]
I texted this picture from The Parkway Grille to my grandson Liam and said, “We should have invited you.” But I’m getting ahead of myself. The dessert was to-go and came after this gourmet meal, prepared by our good friend Logan Tiebout, owner of Floyd’s Parkway Grille. Both meals that Joe and I had were […]
The arrow tracked the deepest hurt grazing the heart on its way down Not as a message from Cupid’s bow a fatal blow or target practice The arrow landed on its mark in a child’s graveyard of forgetfulness Pinned and pierced Fear unmasked The arrow’s tip like a scalpel cuts It opens the path to […]
1. I’m not a rose-colored glasses person. I like all colors. 2. I prefer THIS kind of snow white. 3. Today I found myself singing “I wish I had a river I could skate away on’ and pining for my ice skates that I gave to our local thrift shop a few of years ago. […]
Technology is stressful and passwords are many and so forgettable. After spending 3+ hours in Christiansburg getting my phone fixed, Joe and I needed some downtime, which we got at Floyd’s Buffalo Mountain Brewery. On the drive back to Floyd from Christiansburg, we listened to my new Spotify playlist, Best of Van Morrison, and sang […]
I wasn’t born yellow or caged I didn’t fly or live in a coal mine I don’t tell other people’s secrets I don’t sing as much as the males I haven’t died but the world takes a toll I lie down but don’t quit I have an obstacle to unblock and a small light to […]
1. Now that the holiday lights have come down and celebrations have faded, winter’s reality sets in. 2. Back in the ‘90s there was a popular bumper sticker that said “Question Authority?” 3. I had one that said “Question Reality.” 4. Remember the online viral phenomenon about a dress that some saw as blue and […]
All the shelves of eggs at Food Lion were bare. We met with our friend Susanna for a drink and some post-holiday cheer the night before the predicted snowstorm. Our first snowstorm of the season turned out to be ice. Freezing rain is typical for this part of the country, as if Virginia can’t decide […]
1. I believe AI writing is just plagiarism from multiple sources. 2. And AI written poetry is sacrilegious. 3. “There are people who want to know about everything in the minutest detail, like accountants or lawyers. But show a toe sticking out of a hole in a sock to a poet and it is enough […]
