Loose Leaf Notes

________Shadow Shot Sunday

1. The first thing I said to Joe when I came to after having anesthesia for a medical procedure was “What did Trump do while I was under?” 2. The nurse in the room overheard me and said, “It’s an applecart going downhill that just hasn’t hit the bottom yet.” 3. Mario and Lugi’s nemesis […]

_______Wordless Wednesday

How many can say they’ve actually participated in one of those surprise birthday parties that you see in movies where everyone hides, then jumps out shouting “Happy Birthday” when the person with the birthday arrives unaware? We recently pulled one of those off for our friend Jayn.  Yes, we parked in an upper field away […]

I want a poem I can live happily ever after with even if we fight A poem that will talk to me but one that won’t say what it thinks I want to hear I want a poem meant to be that says what it means and isn’t afraid to wear its heart on its […]

I know that Smashing Pumpkins is the name of a band but it’s also a tradition in our family. It’s a “boys will be boys” (as my 9-year-old grandson Bryce says) fun way to dispose of rotting pumpkins that I grew. And there is more than one way to collect seeds for roasting. Bryce came […]

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on September 21, 2017. Laughter filled the June Bug Center over the weekend for the Floyd Community Theatre Guild’s (FCTG) production of The Not-so-Grimm Tales.  Presented by eleven young actors, the play gives a modern twist to three Grimm Fairy Tales, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White […]

1. THIS is what happens when you drink the kool-aid. 2. Joe and I went to a Cosmic Charlie Grateful Dead tribute band concert at Chantilly Farm over the weekend. I couldn’t decide if it felt like I was at a rave or a gospel church service. 3. For me, going to Grateful Dead concerts […]

_________Wordless Wednesday   / Our World Tuesday

Cosmic Charlie set some “fire on the mountain” Saturday night at Chantilly Farm in Floyd. For me, going to Grateful Dead concerts – whether an actual show with Jerry Garcia and the rest or a great tribute band like Cosmic Charlie or The Kind –  is something like going to church. There is a following […]

________Shadow Shot Sunday

My bed is the hearth of my home where teacups gather like neighbors and scribbled notes are brushed aside to make room for friends who come to call for foot rubs that follow the news Sometimes my blue comforter is like a blanket on the beach and I’m the tourist of my favorite dreams I […]