Loose Leaf Notes

Our regular photo bombers were not at our Scrabble game at Outer Space on Wednesday, but sitting right next to us was a mother and daughter who were also playing Scrabble! The young daughter became Jayn’s sidekick, lucky charm or coach. Whatever, it worked because Jayn, who claims to like losing, won the game. We […]

The miracle was that Joe’s brother Mike got us 4 box seat passes. We had bought one extra ticket that we sold in the parking lot. I hadn’t been to a Dead Show since Jerry died in 1995 but some things don’t change all that much. Back then, I worked the parking lot selling wrapped […]

_______Wordless Wednesday

My close friend for the past 3+ decades passed away this morning. I’m told it was a peaceful passing. Alwyn was 95. We had a 95th birthday for her at her Warm Hearth apartment this past November. Friends gathered, songs were sung (listen HERE), cake was eaten. The last time I saw her was for […]

I got there early. Not only did I get a first-class seat (which happened to be a bench in front of the Floyd Country Store) while waiting for the doors to open for a Meet & Greet with our rising star homegirl Morgan Wade, I got a front row seat when I went inside.  To […]

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on April 7, 2022. Joe Klein’s preparations to section hike the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to North Carolina took more time than his actual journey and involved researching and purchasing the best lightweight gear, preparing and freeze-drying meals, and taking practice day-hikes near his home along the […]

Joe got off the trail at the Nantahala Outdoor Center but not before a second blast of cold weather in his two week AT hike. Feeling celebratory after hiking 145 miles, he got in his comfy new crocs and waited for our son Josh, who lives in Marshall NC, to pick him up and drive […]

It was a good dance turn-out for a good band and a sacrifice on my part to giving up dancing while getting this short clip of my favorite song they do. Watching my friend Sally dance to her namesake song was worth the price of admission. Watch her smile and wave (near the end between […]

We didn’t read poetry, but we still got to “act our age.” And so did he! Everyone who posed at Allister’s birthday photo booth was numero uno for a few minutes. Happy Birthday Allister! ________Still Acting Our Age poetry reading tour is HERE and HERE. 

Well, I’ve always called it Round Ball, but whatever the name, it seems to be everyone’s favorite. By my count (videos and blog posts), the band has played at Dogtown six times. Add Floydfest to that and you can just about double the amount of times that they’ve played in Floyd. The Hotel Floyd was […]

“You spend the first part of your life collecting things and the second half getting rid of them.” Isabel Allende I’ve always been a documenter. I have dozens and dozens of photo albums that I started keeping in the ‘70s.  Most are the bulky magnetic self-stick 3-ring albums, but once they collected and started to […]