Loose Leaf Notes

The spread of red is more of a creep and the glimmer of gold but a glimpse.

1. It’s so right that the word zing is part of amazing. 2. I’m glad I live in a place where smoke comes out of chimneys. 3. That comment and the picture above got 40 likes on Facebook.  4.  As a girl, I always held out hope that I would hear the nightingale’s song in […]

Floyd: The Hollywood of the Blue Ridge.  After working on his second independent film shot in Floyd, that’s what Floyd Countian Jason Gallimore calls it.  First it was horror thriller, now a romantic comedy (both produced by two different film production companies). I stopped by Oddfella’s Cantina, where some of the movie scenes are set, […]

Red roasted day Breeze spreads like butter Chimes celebrate fall’s feast of color Steeped in Indian summer sun shades of cinnamon honey and pumpkin Cardamom, cloves nutmeg and ginger turn up the flavor of fall’s spicy simmer ________Colleen Redman _______dVerse Poets Pub

The roots of my interest in writing go back further than reading my first poems to Sherry and has something to do with the songs of the 40’s and the nursery rhymes that our father taught us. It has something to do with my childhood play in the tall grass by the blackberry bushes. Talking […]

Or Three Musketeers? Shadow Shot Sunday

No spit balls were thrown.  No one giggled or whispered. The students actually listened and seemed interested in hearing my writer’s story.   It was a small Literary Art Project class at the new Blue Mountain High School, where the students (currently six girls) are re-launching Artemis, a Roanoke literary arts journal that was founded in […]

1. Do words have a collective noun – like a flock of birds or a school or whales? If not, I’d like to propose “a conjur of words.” 2. Best line seen on Facebook this week after a Floyd friend posted that he thought something got stolen from his unlocked car:  Remember when we had […]

His shirt matched the cake that his mamma made.  I had to learn about minions and why they’re despicable. Despicable “2,” Liam corrects me.  “But you’re not two, are you?” Gracious with a touch of shyness, he smiles and holds up three fingers. When I got home I googled them. and learned that they’re gibberish […]

Sweet potato, butternut Honey for our honey pot Pumpkin, beans and black walnuts Thanks to the harvest we’re all filled up! ___________dVerse Poets Pub_______video clip HERE.

On an Indian summer Sunday, we celebrated our friend Jayn’s birthday at Villa Appalaccia’s “All Things Olive.”   I learned that if I picked a fresh olive off a tree and put it in my mouth, I’d quickly spit it out.  The flavors are dependent on the oils, vinegars and herbs that the olives are […]

At least that would be my preference and is what polls are predicting.   The Democratic candidate for Virginia Governor, Terry McAuliffe, called Floyd the “real capital of Virginia” when he spoke at the Friday Night Jamboree at the Floyd Country Store.  I arrived late, after babysitting my grandsons all day, and missed his brief stump […]