My husband’s job as a counselor has taken him out of town for trainings on two occasions recently. He takes my car – a black Honda CRV with the license plate that says L3T IT B – because it gets better gas mileage and is more comfortable on long trips than either of his trucks. […]
I managed to burn a pot of vegetables before heading out to the weekend wedding. So now I smell like burnt carrots instead of lemon verbena (the scent of the soap I bathed with). After a few choice curse words and setting the pot outside on the stone walkway to cool, I began to get […]
Maybe age is a clock to wake us from dreaming…Or maybe it is the dream…Like counting the number of pages in a book…when we should be reading the story… I like to paint my toenails on my birthday. It’s usually just the right time to start wearing sandals, to put up the window screens […]
The meter is ticking… When asked by a fellow blogger if my stats had gone up after Loose Leaf was listed in the Roanoke Times “Blogging in Southwest Virginia” list, and after my friend, Fragments Fred, who was also listed, told me his had gone up, I had to admit that I didn’t know anything […]
I attended a workshop on “taking oral histories” sponsored by Floyd’s “Old Church Gallery” this past Thursday night. At one point during the program, the presenter said something to the effect of: ‘You might be one of those people who starts writing the story before it’s finished happening, one who lives more for the story […]
Don’t get me wrong. I really do love my husband… The boot is from LL Bean. It’s all-leather, waterproof, and not clunky. It’s good for hiking as well as city walking and can be worn with pants or a skirt if need be. It’s almost 10 years old, and at the time of purchase, it […]
Today I got an escort while driving down Woods Gap Road by a young deer that didn’t know any better. Acting more like a rabbit, and not that much bigger than a large one, it zigzagged on the road before settling down onto a straight path directly in front of my car. I figured it […]
(AKA: Why is my face on a billboard?!) The first time I saw an Iris flower, I was probably 7 years old. It was growing on the side of a big old abandoned house that was destined to be torn down by the time I was a teenager. I thought it was an orchid. It […]
I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it. ~ Albert Einstein A Fingernail of Moon Look! A fingernail moon painted silver has landed upright in a wide-mouth bowl Clipped close from the darkness the moon is filed down to a delicate sliver of smiling light An […]
I was sitting on the porch of the North Star Day Program (a facility for people with developmental disabilities) across the street from the house in the photo when we heard the crash. Soon after, a man came running down the sidewalk from a nearby house to offer help, or so we thought. It turned […]
At Oddfella’s Cantina this past Friday night, the music was Irish and the special was halibut. We were a table of 9, about half women, half men, ranging in age from 25 to 65. I passed a notebook around the table for a new take on “10 Things I’ve Done That You Probably Haven’t.” The […]
The Boasting Crocus woke us in spring The dandelions are next ready for roaring Walking back from the mailbox yesterday morning, after spending more time on the computer than I intended to, I had a revelation: The border (in this case a fence) between my neighbor’s property and mine is like the difference between New […]
