Loose Leaf Notes

_______Our World Tuesday/ Wordless Wednesday

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 27, 2021. High school seniors were socially distanced on the football field Saturday, May 22, to officially become the 59th graduating class of Floyd County High School under sunny skies. Principal Barry Hollandsworth greeted the crowd at the ceremony and expressed his gratitude that more […]

I am a poem that’s read from center from right to left or end to start I’m not overgrown like the forsythia in my yard and not clipped close like a landscaper’s victim I’m not an easy catch but don’t play hard to get I’m best read with eyes squinted with head tilted and feet […]

1. Where are your old blue jeans? HERE. 2. Slapstick moon: I slipped on the moon’s crescent peel and dreamt of whipped moon pie revenge. 3. Joe got me an ancestry kit for my birthday. When I opened it, I said, “Let’s find out if we’re Irish cousins.” 4. When Loose Leaf Notes doesn’t have […]

Ray Wylie Hubbard plays Good Old Country Blues at the Epperly Mill in Floyd VA. Here, he explains how and why he named one of his albums “A: Enlightenment B: Endarkenment (Hint: There is No C).” His answer is great and the clip is a good example of his songwriting, his storytelling and his and […]

Music Road Company at Dogtown Roadhouse.

Contemplation steeped in a pool of lavish tea Share a cup of gold Poets rhyme sugar with teacup and saucer They alliterate morning with mug Delicate or robust Hinting fruit, nut or flower Every good cup starts with boiling water Beatniks ring saucers with teaspoon clappers Jam with jazz rappers Sing praises to Lao Tzu […]

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 20, 2021. The June Bug Center after-school actors, in partnership with the Floyd Community Theatre Guild, presented Shrek Jr. this weekend on the main stage at Burnette Farm in Willis. The production served in part to celebrate the center’s 20 years of live theatre performances […]

1. Word is that it briefly snowed in part of the county last Wednesday. Today it could hit 80. 2. This Rose Breasted Grosbeak is the Ruth Bader Ginsberg of birds because its initials are RBG. 3. I ran into my one-time firewood guy last weekend at Dogtown and was pretty sure it was his […]

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 13, 2021 The Little River Poetry Festival (LRPF) is about to kick off its sixth year (June 4 -6) under the big poetry tent at On the Water Outfitters (2053 Thunderstruck Road). Along with featured readers from all over Virginia and some from out of […]

I think my friend Steve wanted me to look at his T-shirt but all I could see was his nachos. We were at a memorial show at Dogtown for our friend Mark Proctor, who recently died in a car crash. It was also a fundraiser in Mark’s honor for The Floyd Country Store’s Handmade Music […]

Crowned Oracle At the Lover’s Threshold Spring is Her Open Doorway Poets and Storytellers United