1. So I had just seen “The Shipping News,” the movie where Kevin Spacey plays a man thrown into a job as a newspaper reporter covering shipping news and car accidents in Newfoundland. The next morning I was on my way to do an interview for a story on a small family farm for the […]
Wordless Wednesday HERE.
I’m working on St. Patrick’s Day (supporting an adult with disabilities), so the extent of my celebratory wearing of green will likely be the two green wristbands from the two bands I saw perform this weekend. I earned the first one Friday night at Dogtown Roadhouse where I heard Paleface perform and fantasized them singing […]
~ The following was published in the Floyd Press on March 10, 2011. Decked out in glitter, beads and feathers, about 250 people celebrated the second annual Mardi Gras Ball at the Dogtown Roadhouse/Sun Music Hall Saturday night. The Ball was a fundraiser to benefit Blue Mountain School, Floyd’s independent school off Christiansburg Pike, soon […]
1. “Thou shalt not kill” – or the Buddhist version “Abstain from killing” is a fine moral guideline for human society. It’s non-sensical when applied to the natural world. … Life is literally a process of one creature eating another, whether it’s bacteria breaking down plants or animals, plants strangling each other, animals going for […]
A woman in my dialogue circle shared something positive about her childhood that I didn’t experience in mine. Instead of being triggered by what I felt as a lack, I was able to feel happy for her that she was so fostered. The thought of what I had missed crossed my mind but I was […]
In the beginning I misunderstood. But now I’ve got it, the word is good. ~ Lennon/McCartney Should I retire the Spoken Word category of my blog? After a five year run of hearing from authors, actors, writing teachers, poets, bloggers, storytellers, lyricists, stand-up comics, journalists and radio essayists at the open mic on the third […]
From the outer space photos of yesterday’s post to the outasight shots of Floyd’s second annual Mardi Gras ball at the Sun Hall. There was glitter and glamour, fancy feathers and fun to benefit Floyd’s Blue Mountain School. There was dancing and merriment, costume contests, the crowning of this year’s King and Queen, and more. […]
The 39th and final flight of Space Shuttle Discovery is currently in outer space and has an extended family member on board, my sister Trish’s brother-in-law astronaut Stephen Bowen, pictured here floating through the shuttle. All I can think about when I look at these pictures, sent by Stephen to his wife, is Peter Pan, […]
1. I’m the kind of person who likes carrot cake more than chocolate and Motown more than rap. 2. How a poem is like cake: Don’t use a mix or stale ingredients/Don’t look in the oven too much when it’s cooking/or eat too much at one sitting/Don’t over-sweeten or over-stir/A baker and a poet are […]
If it’s true that a picture is worth 1,000 words, I won’t feel guilty about the recent lack of written content here at Loose Leaf Notes. After a weekend guest, some foster care respite work, a pile of interview notes to go through, and a full day of play and care giving with the grandkids; […]
