There was a blizzard of writing on the Love-Link, the family email group I belong to that was started before my brother Danny died and while he was in the hospital. Words like “projectile vomiting” were flying around, along with recipes for chicken soup and updates on how many inches of snow were falling in […]
AKA: 1. A picture is worth 1000 words… or is that kisses? 2. This is a game where we both win. 3. Got one of your own? HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY XOXO
My youngest son, Dylan, is 24! I’ve always told him that he was born the day before Valentine’s Day because he’s such a “sweetheart.” This photo was taken when he was 6years old, but the questions below were asked when he was 4 ½ as were part of an interview done for “The Dolphin Messenger,” […]
Sipping tea on the couch while looking out my window, I can just barely see the footprints made yesterday when my husband and I went out walking in the snow. They look like craters on the surface of the moon. The morning sun across the stretch of yard where my sons used to play soccer […]
I have written scores of poems about the moon. One of the first little chapbooks I put together for myself was titled “MOONDALA OOH-LA-LA.” During that time I was participating in an improv-movement class and was one of three women in a local poetry troupe called “Women of the 7th Veil.” In our hey-day, we […]
I’ve got a notion…I might as well be closer to your heart…It’s out in the open…I might as well be closer to your heart… ~ song by Clannad ~ While walking hand in hand to the mailbox recently with my husband, I asked him, “Can you remember the exact moment you fell in love with […]
1. My first act of guerilla graffiti with my new label gun was to print up labels on bright red tape saying “I love you” and then stick them on certain people’s briefcases, cars, cards and such. 2. I’ve decided that my graffiti tag is XOXO. 3. My son Dylan’s birthday is February 13th (which […]
The Appalachian Mountains…ran like shivers up my spine…they rose in my dreams… Was I always destined for Virginia? How did I go from a small coastal town in the South Shore of Boston to living a rural life in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia? Was the fact that I grew up infatuated with […]
Stars of champagne are bubbling over from the moon’s bowl of sparkling light ~ Is the moon half empty or half full? Before climbing into bed Sunday night, I peered out my window to see where all the light was coming from. Happily, I discovered the moon was half full, balancing in the sky like […]
Dance: Poetry of the foot. ~ John Dyden ~ Since the days of The Surf Ballroom in my amusement park hometown of Hull, Massachusetts, dance has been my body’s native language. I love it the way my husband loves to play soccer, and I treat it like a favorite sport. Resting during the day before […]
This is fun. I saw it at “Out of My Mind with Worry” from a website called “Snapshirts.com.” You type in the name of your blog and it creates a word collage based on what’s found at your site. I think this one is a pretty good representation of “Loose Leaf,” and I imagine the […]
On Friday, my whole day revolved around fish. It had nothing to do with the fact that I was raised Catholic and it was considered a sin to eat meat on Fridays back then, and so my family usually ate fish. It had everything to do with a local Floyd business that consists of two […]
