Loose Leaf Notes

Last week’s This is Why I Take My Camera Everywhere I Go is HERE. _______Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday

  Mara wants to take our poetry routine on the road. Because we know each other so well and have been bouncing off each other’s work for 30 years, our featured reading at the Little River Poetry Festival came off a bit as a comedy act.  Back in the day (2005 – 2012) when we […]

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 30 and June 6, 2019. At the 57th Graduation Ceremonies Friday evening, Principal Barry Hollandsworth addressed an overflow crowd and welcomed the 2019 graduating seniors – 34 honor students, those going on to universities and community colleges, technical schools, the military and the workforce.   Whatever […]

1. Yesterday Joe was out of town and eating out with a friend when he texted me a picture of his dinner.  “Did you have a bear with that?” I asked him and sent the picture below.  It was on the porch when I stepped outside, so close I could smell it, and it stunk. […]

_______________Our World Tuesday/Wordless Wednesday

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 30, 2019. Most Floyd Countians know Wanda Combs as a long-time reporter and the editor of The Floyd Press. Less know her as a trained pianist and educator.  As Combs reviews her 40+ years at the paper and looks ahead to her June 1st retirement, […]

I used to stick my head out the backseat car window not caring that it messed my hair I still lean up and talk to the people up front and lay down and rest when nothing is happening When I stare at a stranger passing by on a highway they stare back like I called […]