Cornershot

To submit a CornerShot

The Roanoke Times welcomes CornerShot submissions from its readers. Here are the guidelines:

Length: about 200 words
Topic: CornerShots can run the gamut, but we generally prefer unique and clever observations on the human experience.
No poetry, please.
Email your submission to extra@roanoke.com with your full name and hometown and “CornerShot” in the subject line. You can also mail submissions to Kathy Lu, CornerShot, The Roanoke Times, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke, VA 24010.
Submissions are subject to editing.

1. 41-vehicle wreck ties up traffic Sunday on I-81 in Rockbridge County

2. Virginia Tech football roster has holes on picture day

3. Medicare penalties hit hospitals in Roanoke, New River Valleys

4. Microfestivus beer event gets downtown Roanoke hopping

5. McFarling: 2 little numbers are a big hurdle for Virginia Tech football

6. DAN CASEY: Copter cost still stirring up dust

7. Arrest made in case of missing Nelson County teen

8. Roanoke farmers markets making local foods more accessible

9. Virginia attorney general's office grows under Ken Cuccinelli

10. Man's drowning is 5th in Lynchburg area

Frank Geurrandeno | A reader in Wirtz

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

The joyous effect of spring unearths the spirits within us all that slumbered in the looming of winter.

Jaws that once cracked and clattered from frostbitten temperatures now widen with smiles and gleeful chanting of the white’s demise. Where in winter when our souls searched for warmth, we now have found it in spring with radiance.

It’s an annual cycle. During the winter, we seek our reflections from the ice on our windows and hot cocoa in hand.

Now, as the greens blossom and become viridian to our eyes, we find our reflections in the lakes in which we swim and the lemonade that quenches our drought.

Springtime has come, as the sun seeps through winter’s billows.

Monday, August 12, 2013