Loose Leaf Notes

Spring Takes the Lead.  Leaves Winter Behind. _________________Shadow Shot Sunday

~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on March 21, 2012. “We’re hoping that this will be something we do twice a semester, giving young people an opportunity to perform and share their creative talents with each other,” announced Heather Krantz from the Black Box stage at the June Bug Center’s first After […]

1. Everything that Joe and I do stopped when he got the flu, I had a cold and a spring snow storm blew in. After almost of a week of being home like that, it began to feel like a bizzaro vacation world, where the highlight of our simplified day was eating breakfast together, lying […]

  Light-headed moon 100 proof shine High on life in a black-out night   _______________________dVerse Poets Pub

Waiting out winter. The lunch line. Birdseed bandit. Stoic in blue. ___________________Our World Tuesday

Shadow Shot Sunday

The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on March 21, 20912 An overflow crowd gathered Oddfella’s Cantina Thursday evening, March 7, for the debut tasting of Little Red RooStarr, a new Coffee Cream Stout brewed by Charlottesville’s Starr Hill Brewery with coffee from Floyd’s Red Rooster Coffee Roaster. The Tapas and Taps release party […]

1. Best quote seen on Facebook this week: Growing your own food is like printing your own money. ~ Ron Finley 2. The closest I came to wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day was brushing my teeth with my green toothbrush and drinking a stinging nettles infusion. 3. Posted on March 18, 2008: “I’m so […]

Wordless Wednesday

The tables were set-up like a panel discussion and the stage lighting gave the feel of a police line-up.  On the other hand, it was a pleasure not to hear coffee being ground for lattes and to not be distracted by a band playing nearby. So there I was in the hot seat after not […]

So I was watching my friend Leia Jones and her students perform at the June Bug’s after school program Open Mic, and I had to make a snap decision between taking still photographs or a video clip. The photographs won out, which is why THIS video clip is short and cuts off just before the […]

Was it the IPA at Oddfella’s Tapas bar?  ________________Sunday Shadow Shot