Felicia Mitchell's Blog

• Now Where Are My Sneakers?

  March 11, 2010

  • This week I took on weight as a topic, a weighty topic and a risky one for me, I wonder, not having the credentials to talk about obesity firsthand, I worry.  But a good weight is important, no matter the starting point, and even if a person who appears "normal" speaks out, well, it's not as if I took on the most controversial topic out there.The New Gallup Poll Study included the ...
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• Belated Black History Month Lesson

  March 2, 2010

  • This week for my column in Washington County News, I wrote about a trip I took to Booker T. Washington National Monument in Franklin County, Virginia, south of Roanoke.  I had driven by a sign pointing me in that direction but had not stopped before.   This time, I made a point of going to visit this place.  Booker T. Washington has always been special to me since 1969 when I was ...
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• Day 19,626: Chilhowie, VA

  March 1, 2010

  • I am not very good with blogs; consequently, I write and months pass.  Perhaps as I think of things to say here I will post a link now and then to my newspaper column, which appears weekly in Washington County News, a small-town weekly newspaper that serves rural Washington County, Virginia.  To be fair, I will say that this particular column is a response to the YouTube video that ...
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• Spoken Word: June 20

  June 24, 2009

  •  I attended Spoken Word at Cafe del Sol in Floyd June 20.  It was, as usual, lively and inspiring.  Colleen Redman, author of Loose Leaf Notes (and other texts), commented here:http://www.looseleafnotes.com/notes/2009/06/just_when_you_thought_the_floy.html
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• Finishing Line Press Release: The Cleft of the Rock

  January 30, 2009

  • A keen observer of the landscape of the natural world and its corollary terrain of the heart, poet Felicia Mitchell has just had her third chapbook collection of poetry published, this time by award-winning Finishing Line Press.  This small collection of poems follows “There is No Map,” published online in 2008 by Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and “Earthenware Fertility ...
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