A support group? A union? A class or convention? There was talk of track backs, permalinks, and spam. Mostly, we enjoyed meeting each other, some for the first time. We were old bloggers, new bloggers, wanna-be bloggers, and blog readers. The lap tops were lit up and the stats were compared. I learned that bloggers […]
1. Sometimes I feel my writing is something like Erma Brombeck meets Rumi. 2. Pen and ink is to art what acoustic guitar is to electric. 3. I don’t write for a living but I live for writing. 4. My notebooks are to my mind what pans are to a house with a leaking roof. […]
Life in the Rural Fast Lane, my blog entry turned radio essay that aired this month on WVTF public radio stirred-up quite a bit of feedback. The emails I got after the piece aired were all friendly enough, even the one from the man who wanted to inform me that “VDOT would be very upset […]
On this day, Joe and I walked a stone path lined with emerald green moss against the backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Appalachian Mountain Range, one of the oldest in the world, is a gently rolling scene of overlapping mountains for as far as the eye can see. It looks prehistoric, and I […]
There are two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; and the larger kind we feel for what we give.” ~ E. A. Robinson I’ve been trying to resolve the difference between passion and obsession. There’s something exciting about doing what I love (in my case writing) until I […]
AKA: Remedy for cold spring weather. How come it’s so hard to maintain that vacation state of mind when you get back home from one? I don’t want to relegate my recent oceanfront camping trip to the bowels of my archives too soon, so here are a few snapped images for your viewing pleasure taken […]
Pale as spring grass beneath un-raked leaves my skin under clothes is wilted and withered My shivering flesh is the first flower exposed at the first sign of thaw when green rumors are spread Photo: On a writer’s retreat last spring. The poem is from 2005 as well.
The answers to Tuesday’s Loose Leaf InQUIZiton are as follows: 1. This past year I wrote about winning what? On May 30th I wrote: On the night of the day that my essay aired on WVTF public radio, I participated in a poetry slam at The London Underground in Blacksburg and won $100 gift certificate […]
1. I recently had a first blog birthday. On Monday, March 20, when I posted “Happy Birthday to Loose Leaf” it was also my dad’s birthday, the first since he passed away this past November. He would have been 82. 2. I have an email pen pal who found me via hearing my blog entry […]
In keeping with the week’s celebration of Loose Leaf’s first year mark, I consulted the Google Oracle to see what it had to say. I typed “Loose Leaf is” into their search engine and this is some of what I got: Loose Leaf is heard on 227 stations and boasts 250000 listeners. Loose Leaf is […]
Okay, now let’s see who’s been paying attention! I found a great little quiz over at Weary Hag’s place that I wanted to adapt for Loose Leaf. I had fun playing (her version was called the “Hagsperiment”), and I especially liked the game show sound effects. But when I went to set up my own […]
My blog is a year old. It was born on March 12, 2005 at Blogger.com. Five days later, with the encouragement of friends and fellow Floyd bloggers, it took its first steps and made its way to Moveable Type. Below are excerpts from some of Loose Leaf’s first words: March 12: How’s It Working For […]
