I’ve got a notion…I might as well be closer to your heart…It’s out in the open…I might as well be closer to your heart… ~ song by Clannad ~ While walking hand in hand to the mailbox recently with my husband, I asked him, “Can you remember the exact moment you fell in love with […]
This is fun. I saw it at “Out of My Mind with Worry” from a website called “Snapshirts.com.” You type in the name of your blog and it creates a word collage based on what’s found at your site. I think this one is a pretty good representation of “Loose Leaf,” and I imagine the […]
1. Caught red handed. 2. Pretty in pink 3. Hands up! This is a stick-up 4. Simon says: Do this. _________________ fill in your own caption. Photo: Sunday walk on a Blue Ridge Parkway trail. Joe wants to take my picture and says, “Take your hands out of your pocket. I want to see your […]
The following are the answers to yesterday’s “Liar Liar Pants on Fire” Challenge: 1. I have hitchhiked before. We called it “thumbing.” It was the late 1970s, and I was probably inspired by the lyrics of the song Me and Bobby Mcgee… Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained…It rode us all the […]
Liar Liar Pants on Fire returns to Loose Leaf. Below are 4 things about me, one of which is a lie. Can you pick out the lie? Winners will be posted. 1. I’ve hitchhiked before. 2. I’ve rode in a helicopter before. 3. I have a pair of ruby red slippers like Dorothy’s. 4. I’ve […]
This is the front window of my Asheville potter son’s warehouse studio/remodeled living space. I wonder how many web surfers searching for a certain outlawed herbal remedy will come to my site and be disappointed today?
This past November, inspired by an idea at Writing from the Hip, I posted excerpts and links to my Top Ten blog posts taken from my first 6 months of blogging. I enjoyed the process of picking out my favorites and re-posting them, especially considering that in the first few months of blogging I didn’t […]
“One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends; if they seem OK, then you’re the one.” ~ Ann Landers I was tagged by Bill, the grad student who discovered my blog while taking a blog class at Trinity College and then brought it to the attention […]
AKA: What’s Under Your Tree? Just in time for Christmas? An alternative to sitting on Santa’s lap? This is a new take on “The Google Oracle” I posted in October. Type your name in a search engine like this: “Colleen needs” and see what Google divines for you. Colleen needs a new computer. Colleen needs […]
AKA: My “Liar Liar” contest backfired! I recently posted 4 things about myself, one of which was a lie, and asked readers to guess which one. Most everyone picked “I went to Woodstock” as the lie. And they were right, but not right for the right reasons. They thought I wasn’t old enough to have […]
I had so much fun with last month’s game of “can you pick out the lie?” that I thought I’d try it again. Listed below are 4 things about me, one of which is a lie. Can you guess which it is? Take your best shot. I’ll post the winner in an upcoming entry. 1. […]
I got the idea of featuring my 10 favorite posts from Paul at “Writing from the Hip.” I’ve been blogging at Loose Leaf for 9 months now, and I decided to choose favorites from my first 6 months of entries, March – August. I didn’t have many readers in my first few months of blogging, […]
