Loose Leaf Notes

I’d Rather Be Part 2 HERE. ________________________Our World Tuesday

I really wanted to wear bell-bottoms to the Summer of Love Party at Dogtown last night, but I don’t have or couldn’t find any.  I do have two memorable items of clothing from 1969 that I could have worn but chose the above 1980’s thrift shop top because I knew it would be easier to […]

I can’t walk by OuterSpace on the way to dance at Dogtown without stopping. I went inside Barb’s magic blue bus for the first time. While I was on the bus Joe played piano. The Buddhas live here. There’s a free library and a space mail box. We stopped on the way out after dancing […]

Did you hear the pin drop? Did you see how she embodies the music she makes? Who knew what a harp could do? _____________Look for a story and photos in an upcoming Floyd Press.

What could be more summer than watermelon, Frisbee and a neighborhood baseball game in the yard? !*##&&? Liam’s first base ace. Ryder’s fast ball. Bryce’s Boom! Joe bowled us over with his pitching. Kaitlin’s kick off! Waah! I wanna play more baseball. Best seat in the house. Or maybe this is. Luna was everyone’s best […]

I’m jumping on the CBD Oil bandwagon, only in this case, the bandwagon is Barb’s Blue Bus.  Joe and I stopped by the soft opening of OUTERSPACE, the collaborative street venue of John Beegle’s Bootleg BBQ, Erika Johnson’s Revolution Juice Yurt and Barbara Gillespie’s Grateful Bread Blue Bus. Joe ordered and I tasted one of […]

We spent a little time on the mountain dancing to The Kind at the Pine. _____________________________Our World Tuesday

I’m a sucker for Mustang Sally. The next day I went to a house concert at Grateful Bread and was shocked to discover that I knew the featured duo, Cicada Rhythm. The guitar player went to high school with my son Josh’s wife Emily, and they played at Emily and Josh’s wedding last year.  The […]

The 2nd annual Mayfaire at the Floyd Center for the Arts is in full swing, or should I say “full spring.” There are plenty of festive ribbons and flowers to go around. The rain held off and the sun mostly shone from 10 a.m. till about 4:30. Tomorrow is another day to check out all […]

The next best thing to Pink Floyd in Floyd is The Darkside Experience, an operatic Pink Floyd immersion, complete with an epic light show. And it happened right here in Floyd at our hometown Dogtown Roadhouse. We were all in the Pink of psychedelic nostalgia and loving every moment. Beam me up, Roger.     Back […]

It’s April 16th and the butterfly count is two. Both were yellow swallowtails. The mountain bluebird count is one.  The forsythia blooms have come and gone and now I’m waiting for dogwood petals to wax full, like the moon. The sound of an airplane overhead makes me homesick for my Hull, Massachusetts hometown peninsula, where […]

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