Loose Leaf Notes

_______Our World Tuesday  / Wordless Wednesday

The moon shines outside the box With a genius of light it gets through to the dark ______________Colleen Redman / Read “A Hopeful Crescent,” another recent moon poem HERE. / Poets and Storytellers United

The last few weeks of my brother’s lives played out like the conclusion of a dramatic Hollywood script, a plot with a twist.  The road trip they took, two weeks before the first death, became the beginning of a larger journey, the one in which they would both leave this world.  I have decided to […]

1. “Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?” Neil Gaiman: “Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.” 2. “In winter, we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are half concealed, but from […]

It feels like a house concert Saturday night at Buffalo Mountain Brewery’s McDaniel’s Tavern. Sam’s cover of Chris Isaak’s I Wanna Fall in Love actually says, ‘No, I don’t want to fall in love’ (a Wicked Game). and Jake’s original song is not Runaround Sue, but Runaway Sue. Now I have just one burning question.  […]

The little girl on Spring Street wore over-sized boy’s clothes With none of her own she pretended to sleep so her aunt who carried her wouldn’t put her down She learned to like red spaghetti and ride the Red Mill at Paragon Park She might have had ice cream and joined the circus but wasn’t […]

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on January 2, 2019. Voices soared at the Home for the Holidays concert, held in the Floyd EcoVillage’s Celebration Hall last Sunday afternoon. It was a collaboration and festive celebration of Floyd Center for the Arts and Blue Ridge Music Festival, hosted by Roanoke Symphony Orchestra Conductor […]

1. My grandsons and Joe formed an improv rap band that we named “Hopa Joe and the Whaddaya Know.” 2. But then we discovered that 9-year-old Liam was a natural front man, so we changed the name to “Little Lee and the Family Three.” 3. Bryce’s band name is “Bryce the Silent Type.” 4. Speaking […]