Loose Leaf Notes

______Wordless Wednesday

– The following 2019 review was done by excerpting the first line or few in one post from each month last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January –  If ice is a fool’s diamond, then I am a fool because I’m attracted to all that glitters, and […]

I did a practice run for making peanut butter balls before making them at the “Recovery Dojo,” a program that my husband runs for people with substance use disorders. Part of New River Valley Community Services, core components of the Dojo program are training in evidence-based mindfulness skills and health coaching in exercise and nutrition […]

– The following 2018 review was done by excerpting the first line or few in one post from each month last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January – I finally found a use for our plastic spinner sled that has no brakes or steering. It’s great […]

~ The following 2016 review was done by excerpting the first line or few in one post from each month last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January – The juncos stand precariously on snow. They can’t feel the ground beneath them. Their black bodies hop like […]

~ The following 2015 review was done by excerpting the first line or few in one post from each month last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January – In my world, the only thing better than going out dancing for a case of the winter doldrums […]

~ The following 2014 review was done by excerpting the first line or few in one post from each month last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January – What happens to the poem after the climax? When you have to re-create the romance? When you have to […]

~ The following 2013 review was done by excerpting the first line or few in one post from each month last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January: I’m pretty sure it was a Floyd first, a Mardi Gras inspired parade from the Gardner Funeral Home into […]

The following year review was done by excerpting the first line or two in one post of each month from last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January – Big hair, MTV and mothering babies.  That’s what the 80’s were to me.  And then came a move […]

The following year review was done by excerpting the first line or two in one post of each month from last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January:  Stuffy nose.  New purple robe. Warm weather repose.  I’m planted on the porch like a seed craving sun with […]

I haven’t done an award meme in years, but I figured that receiving two Stylish Blogging Awards in one week was a sign, so I’ve taken up the challenge. According to the slightly varied instructions given at the blogs that so generously awarded me (Wendy at Herding Cats in Hammond River and Pearl from Humanyns), […]

“What’s it Like?” is a prompt I used to encourage the imaginations of students at  Floyd’s independent Blue Mountain School when I taught creative writing there years ago. I would cut out strange images (usually from National Geographic) and ask the kids ‘what’s it like?” The idea was for them to not say what they […]