Loose Leaf Notes

Shadow Shot Sunday

“A lot of people knew him as a songwriter and a political activist, but more than anything else he was a community organizer,” said Craig Green to a full-house audience at the Pete Seeger Celebration on Saturday. Held at the Floyd Country Store, the free, public event was a tribute to 6kkthe late music activist […]

 1. Nikki Giovanni named her collection of love poems “Bicycles” because “love requires trust and balance.” 2. For me, living on the edge is not buying back-up eggs and trusting that the hens will lay at least four a day and that they’ll be enough for breakfast for Joe and I. 3. I have to […]

At the year end Blue Mountain High School student presentations, Alex used charts to demonstrate his studies on biology and the human anatomy.  Talking about the function of the heart, he said, “It’s a common myth that blood is blue when it’s deoxygenated.  It’s actually a dark purple and just looks blue through a white […]

 I’ll be reading with others at the local library with other Moonshine contributors on Thursday. Below is the editor’s press release. Above is a photo I took that was chosen for the latest cover. Author Casey Clabough and other local literary talents of Floyd and the New River Valley will gather at 7:00 p.m. on […]

 Nikki Giovanni has style, not only as a poet and in the way she conducts herself, but in her appearance. In this case, as the guest of honor at the re-launching of the literary art journal Artemis, it was from head to toe. She was sporting some stylish cornrows and shiny blue shoes. I didn’t […]

Shadow Shot Sunday

1. I have blisters on my fingers, not because someone handed me a cheeseburger, but because I just turned over soil for three rows of corn and beans and weeded a row of potatoes. 2. Sometimes I put my ear towards the moon and try to hear the ocean. 3. For me, a simple pen is […]

Wordless Wednesday

Acupuncture, carrot cake, putt putt golf and ballroom dancing, all against the backdrop of garden dirt-lined fingers tapping at the keyboard, a browser that kept wanting to crash, a black snake in the chicken coop and a mystery culprit that kept emptying the birdfeeder of every last drop of seed. I really don’t know how […]

~ The following first appeared in the May 15, 2014 issue of The Floyd Press. Linneya Cooley says she didn’t know how to cook before participating in a Culinary Arts class at Blue Mountain High School (BMHS).  Now she makes marinara sauce each Monday morning for stuffed manicotti shells, a lunch entree at the school’s […]

May birthday bathing suit launches a girl’s giddy glee that crashes with the cruel news that it’s too cold for the beach _________Real Toads Open Link