Loose Leaf Notes

______Our World Tuesday  / Wordless Wednesday

Like Kanye with MAGA hat and cape Like an athlete on steroids Like tiger-blooded Charlie Sheen Is winning really everything? Would Trump have won the presidency without the help of Russians? Is winning the record for telling lies really winning? Are you winning at someone else’s expense? Can you win them all? Have you lost […]

This first appeared in The Floyd Press on October 11, 2-18 A Music Lab performance band, called Her Majesty, opened for Music Road Co at Dogtown Roadhouse Saturday night, bringing dancers to the floor and applause from patrons. It was a surprise performance that featured primarily original songs, written and sung by 15-year-old Floyd Countian […]

1. Because of fungus, insects, disease and raccoons, we had the worst garden this year in all the 27 years we’ve lived on our property. 2. But at least our potato harvest has been bountiful. 3. My Facebook update yesterday: Winning? Trump wins Guinness Book of Records for Most Lies told by a President 4. […]

One way or another It comes out in the wash _________Our World Tuesday

It’s like writing a poem every night from scratch I don’t know how to do it or believe it’s going to happen but every night it does I wake but don’t open my eyes I don’t put demands on the day or guide the direction of thoughts I don’t want the first thing I remember […]

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on October 4, 2018. An estimated 200+ people filled the Floyd County High School cafeteria Monday evening for a town hall meeting with Anthony Flaccavento, the Democratic congressional candidate for the 9th district of Virginia.  Flaccavento had vowed to hold 100 town halls before the election on […]

1. Joe and I had a really good weekend that included dancing at Dogtown, reading poetry at Hahn Garden and helping our grandsons learn to ride bikes. 2. I remember my first kiss and the boy that kissed me but don’t remember how I got to the house where it happened or how I got […]

I was invited to a Sunday afternoon poetry reading under the gazebo at the Hahn Horticulture Garden in Blacksburg. By way of introduction and because I saw several familiar faces in the audience from my days working at my friend’s Blacksburg bead shop throughout the ‘90s, I began my reading with a poem that I once taped […]

I was busy dancing. Because “now is the time to get off your feet and dance in the street…” or at Dogtown Roadhouse in Floyd when Donna the Buffalo comes to town (for the fourth time since their first Dogtown show in 2010). You better “look both ways before you cross her heart.” Cross my […]