Loose Leaf Notes

Love you, Bryce! ________Our World Tuesday

Our Parkway get-away is a 5-minute vacation. And it’s just five-minutes from our house. We call this Fire Pink Alley. Firepink Alley leads to Columbine Corner. Now that’s what I call pink!

1. Who’s is it? 2. “Poem” comes from the Greek poíēma, meaning a “thing made,” and a poet is defined in ancient terms as “a maker of things.” So if a poem is a thing made, what kind of thing is it? – From What is a Poem, The Atlantic 3. The weight of a […]

  _______Wordless Wednesday

A kiss is when the bocce ball you throw ends up touching the pallino target ball and you get an extra game point. “Mama Gonna Knock You Out.” That’s what my friend Chris said when  it was my turn to throw. I like bocce ball because anyone, even me, can play and even after a […]

Poets write about the pandemic but rarely about the four years we endured being told not to believe our eyes living under a lockdown of truth Poets don’t wax poetic about the assault on credibility, decency and the rule of law They don’t write verses about the virus of violence or the super spreader leader […]

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 6, 2021. The Floyd Center for the Arts recently hosted a small invitational (due to COVID-19) introduction to the Center’s new Hayloft Gallery exhibit “Paper – An Enduring Medium,” on display through June 5, 2021. Curated by Floyd County’s renowned international paper artist and the […]

1. I’m not a leader, but I’m not a follower either. I’m a party of one. 2. While on our Floyd Family Soft Open Take-over of The Old Marshall Jail Hotel  in NC (which is going to be a hard act to follow), my friend Jody told me that she dreamt I was speaking emotionally […]

The Old Marshall Jail’s Floyd Family Soft-Opening Take-Over weekend was a blast! Yes, it was all fun and games (aka Joe we can see your letters). It included a tour of the jail, repurposed into an art hotel by my son Josh and daughter-in-law Emily, complete with back stories. “It was the oldest operational jail […]

It’s hard to describe the aesthetics and the feeling of being inside my son and daughter-in-laws renovated and repurposed  Old Marshall Jail in Marshall NC. Jody may call it being transformed to a foreign country and I may say it feels like we’re staying in a castle, but Amy coined the best description of the […]