Loose Leaf Notes

Two More days left to Jam at @Floyd Yoga Jam. Story and photos coming soon.

The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on 8/29/2004. Sunny skies prevailed for Saturday’s Second Annual Floyd Living Traditions Festival at the Floyd Center for the Arts. The event welcomed a record-breaking turn-out of attendees to celebrate the traditional arts, crafts and music of Floyd County. “Last year, we hoped for 400 attendees, and […]

1. Because I have a friend named Kamala, pronounced Ka-MaLa, and our presidential candidate’s name is spelled the same but pronounced differently, I’ve been confused. But now I know to pronounce Harris “Comma-La” as her nieces instructed us to at the DNC. 2. In my nearly 20 years of blogging, this is my fifth post […]

Fairy Godmother’s Midnight and the Art of Archetype is the newest installment in the Soulful Aging poetry reading tour that Katherine Chantal and Colleen Redman have been doing since the winter of 2022 at various regional venues. They will be presenting this latest call-and-response reading followed by a writing workshop at Floyd Yoga Jam on […]

1. Be aware or Beware 2. Blah Blah or Blab Blab? 3. “I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again,” Georgia O’Keeffe 4. Summer is like a firefly in a jar. It soon stops being so actively bright, and you eventually have to let it go. Same thing with […]

I missed all the Dogtown dancing with friends, the Small Town Summer dancing to Music Road Co, the last weekdays of the Country Club pool being open and the in-the-loop news following last week. I had a paying job, one of just a few that I’m well-suited for, providing childcare for an active two-year-old boy […]

-The Following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 14, 2024 The Celebration Hall at Floyd’s Ecovillage Event Center was filled with enthusiastic supporters Friday evening for a Democratic fundraiser to benefit the campaigns of Karen Baker, who is running for Congress in Virginia’s 9th Congressional District, and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, who is […]

1. This is the garden party where I shouted Mary Poppin, as in asking my friend Mary (3rd from right) to pop her head into the frame. 2. I spent Friday evening with this stand-up crowd (wait for it). 3. Another stand-up standing room only, standing ovation sing-along. 4. VA 9th District Candidate Karen Baker […]

-After “The Day They Busted The Grateful Dead” by Richard Brautigan When Jerry Garcia stood on the moon alone and blue at the Atlanta Omni in 1995 his guitar defied gravity his voice waved goodbye I took the ride in stunned silence and saw what he saw We watched our planet rolling by We heard […]

1. It was a two-party weekend, not to mention that the two-party weekend started with Dogtown dancing to C. C. Coates with friends. 2. Grateful or Greatful? 3. The first party was an annual gratitude party with a Grateful Dead theme hosted by my friend Margie who inherited a home and property from a man […]

Don’t box me in. Oh, that’s where I left my keys. Do knot enter. No Time Like the Present.