Loose Leaf Notes

Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday

After they held an audience member hostage and did Hamlet backwards, they said they were going to Disneyland.  Look for photos from this Floyd Community Theatre Guild’s presentation of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) in an upcoming Floyd Press.

Shadow Shot Sunday   / Our World Tuesday

The following first appeared in the April 7, 2016 issue of The Floyd Press. “There’s a war on drugs in Floyd,” said Judge Marcus Long at the public STOMP (Standing Together to Overcome the Meth Problem) meeting Tuesday night at the Floyd high school cafeteria. Judge Long, spoke about the region’s newest Drug Court, a […]

1. Lying in bed last week with something like the flu, I noticed a perfect swordfish shape in the knotty pine logs in my bedroom that I hadn’t noticed in all the 25 years I’ve lived in our cabin. 2. It figures:  Talking about being sick, in every email I typed FU by mistake, instead […]

The above is just one of Floyd’s one room schoolhouses.  It’s dated circa 1880. Across the street from it is the old county cannery. It’s still standing. ______Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday

It’s a lament for a lack of inspiration that doesn’t have a beginning or a meaningful ending It’s a an exercise in practice because a poet should have a poem should have a good pick-up line that’s more than a bluff in sickness and in health A poet needs a back-up poem ready like a […]

Shadow Shot Sunday

Shadow Shot Sunday