Loose Leaf Notes

  _______Wordless Wednesday

Now that I’ve already seen Monet’s Garden My only bucket list wish is a heated pool Now that I understand poetry better than I used to I think I had attention deficit disorder at least for the things I didn’t want to do And now that I know I’m never going to join the Peace […]

1. Twiddle or fiddle? 2. What will I think of next? Thoughts are like scenery of the mind. They come in and out of view and pass like the landscape. 3. “This face which shows its age, has all the coin it started with, with the look of being counted too often.” Ted Kooser 4. […]

__________Wordless Wednesday 

Will I click my heels three times when I go? Will the glass slipper fit perfectly before I slip away? I can’t get away from death It follows me like a job that I don’t want to be late for when I have rent to pay Is death the new neighbor whose door I knocked […]

1. I want to know why one of my hens is laying eggs with purple speckles on the shells and why the blue twitter bird on twitter was replaced with a dog’s face for weeks. 2. The birds tweet and trill as if coaxing buds open. Wind roars like the surf of my childhood peninsula, […]

I didn’t know whether to watch the tulips Or the high school prom gown photo shoots at the Hahn Garden. There were more prom gowns at Lefty’s Main Street Grille where we had dinner. After dinner, we retired to the Duck Pond (our old stomping ground when I worked in my friend Juniper’s Blacksburg bead […]

My wardrobe will be complete when I reach the end of life with the right style for any season for wherever I’ll be going It’s taken years of collecting to be dressed for any occasion to be ready on short notice in all the colors that I love It’s taken years of trial and error […]

1. I couldn’t help thinking of Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash singing Girl From the North Country on Dylan’s Nashville Skyline album when I saw the Nashville skyline for the first time. 2. License and registration, please. 3. Here’s Joe working hard at not being a nine-to-fiver. 4. Upon arriving in Nashville, we went to […]

We kept calling ‘Cheekwood’ ‘Creekwood.’ It’s a family name, a Nashville botanical garden and estate with a Color Garden, a Japanese Garden, a Children’s Garden, a Sculpture Garden and more. I call this The Easter Card. This is The Lunch Room. We spent a lot of time watching the turtles at “Terrapin Station.” And then […]

Morgan Wade, our Floyd hometown star, explained to her audience how playing at the Ryman auditorium was a bucket list item come true. It was for me too, at least seeing Nashville for the first time, and it was Morgan’s gig at the Ryman that got us here. It’s a great venue, once a church […]

1. Alanis Morissette’s album, Jagged Little Pill, was my Joni Mitchell Blue of the 90s (and in between Joni and Alanis was Tracy Chapman). Turns out that Morgan Wade, our Floyd VA hometown star who sang with Alanis and three other female singers at the CMT awards, has a new song about Morissette’s influence on […]