Loose Leaf Notes

Shadow Shot Sunday

– The following first appeared in the winter issue of About HER, a regional magazine news insert. Jackie Crenshaw could see sheep from her bedroom window when she was growing up in Yorkshire, a historic county in Northern England known for its wool milling industry.  Her grandparents were shepherds in Scotland and her mother, described […]

1. I honestly didn’t get the joke when Academy Award host Neil Patrick Harris went on stage in his underwear, until I read the next day that it was a reference to Birdman, the movie that won best picture this year and opened with a scene of Michael Keaton in his underwear. 2. This weekend […]

Having The Sun magazine around is like having a bottle of wine in the fridge. If it’s there, I’m easily tempted to drink it, even before noon, and even though I know it will make me feel fuzzy. I don’t keep The Sun around because reading it makes me want to write. I don’t have […]

– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on February 19, 2015 Costumes are a main feature at the annual Floyd Mardi Gras.  Always willing to parade their glitter, feathers and flair, Mardi Gras goers go all out, and they know how to let the good times roll. This year’s 6th annual Mardi Gras […]

Snow flurries fell like the rose petals tossed by the children on their way to the wedding altar.  “For purity and clarity,” our community Priestess, Katherine Moonflower, said about the snow.  We turned to the large picture windows and witnessed winter’s wonderland. “May you blossom in the care of one another,” Katherine told the bride and […]

Joe and I were in a foreign country, France I think.  We spent the night in a hotel or a B&B room, and in the morning he had to go somewhere, so he dropped me off in the city to explore.  I did some half-hearted sightseeing, but, as the day went on, anxiety began to […]

1. The Post in Which I Explain to Six-year-old Bryce What Cupid’s Arrow is and how we spent our Valentine’s Day HERE.  2. I remember when there used to be a Barbie doll in a red dress trapped in a birdcage that was hanging at Oddfella’s Cantina. 3. While dancing myself into a trance at […]

The Whir of Blur Slide Glance of Dance  Mardi Gras Brouha You Know Who You Are Pretty Lasses in Glasses Out of Focus Hocus Pocus The Cowgirl Whirl Impressionistic Bliss More on the Floor What Blue Hug is This? Sometimes the pictures most likely to be deleted turn out to be the best! More on the […]

We spent Valentine’s Day celebrating my son (pictured below) Dylan’s birthday and shooting arrows from his new birthday bows. I know. It’s a boy thing. And I was the only one not wearing camo.  _________Our World Tuesday

That was the Mardi Gras line I used to encourage people to move away from the heaters in the Pine Tavern Pavilion on what we thought was one of the coldest (and most fun) nights of the year. (Last night was colder). Eventually everyone warmed up and the dance floor filled for a community sharing […]

Shadow Shot  Sunday