Loose Leaf Notes

Homebound Ticket to Ride I Didn’t Forge This Masterpiece of Sky

Did I drink too much beer?  There was a winter draft with cinnamon,  beer with blueberries and dark beer mix with a top as creamy as Guinness.  The band setting up was called  the Syd Slack Elastic Waist Band.  Someone actually flirted with me and there were green spots floating all over the bar.  See [...]

  The show must go on!  Even though I’m  here in Massachusetts helping to care for my mother, the Sixteen Hands Fall Studio Tour is going on this weekend in Floyd, Virginia.  Because my Asheville Potter Son Josh is a member, one of the studio stops is at my house.  This is Josh’s guest artist Joey [...]

AKA: Can You Understand These Boston Accents?

 1. You know that guy in the movie American Beauty who filmed the plastic bag blowing in the wind?  I think he got the idea from me.   See HERE. 2. I wish people were as upset by the corruption of our political voting system as they were about Bristol Palin winning undeserved votes on Dancing with [...]

A High Wire Act Things That Make Me Miss My Grandsons Appearing Nightly at The Pier

AKA:  A Thanksgiving Warm-up I wish I had gotten a picture of the winter coat fashion show my sisters and I put on in the living room or one of my brother Joey’s meatloaf with roasted brussel sprouts and potatoes. Scratch tickets have always been a part of Sunday dinners at my mother’s house.  Nobody won the [...]

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Kids on the sidewalk skipping to the school bus with backpacks and lunch pails swinging. Soup bones simmering on the stove where a tea kettle lightly whistles.  Ellen DeGeneres on TV in the living room where my mother is resting.  Anxious cat sprints across the kitchen floor interrupting my stocking footed step.  Workmen scale the roof [...]

1. Best find on Facebook this week: street art made with plastic bags inflated by hot air rising from subway steam grates HERE. 2. My Asheville Potter Son Josh’s recent Facebook comment read: Studio Stroll. So I sent him THIS link. 3. Cropping pictures in Adobe photo shop is a lot like hemming pants. 4. [...]

~ The following was published in the October issue of Natural Awakenings of Southwest Virginia. At The Floyd Country Store in downtown Floyd you can purchase penny candy, play checkers with a neighbor, or enjoy a lunch of beans and cornbread.  You can also pick up wireless on your laptop, buy eco-friendly products, or maybe [...]

Cornucopia moon Filling with light Feast on the stars of November

Gary Boyd’s wife Sherry refers to his online blog buddies as “imaginary friends.” For the past few years, I’ve been one of those friends, but I came to life on Friday in downtown Floyd when I met Gary and his wife in person.  They were in the mountains visiting from their home near Houston, Texas, [...]

Consonants are the carbohydrates that give language bulk Vowels are like proteins needed in every sentence We burn up verbs and nouns stick to our ribs Adjectives and adverbs add flavor

1. A light bulb is a moon wannabe and lightening is light’s wildlife (or should I say “wildlight”). 2. Best commentary title on the  midterm election seen somewhere online this week: Obama’s 2010 “Shellacking” is Like Bush’s 2006 “Thumping.” 3. Silent and listen are the same word with the letters moved around. 4. I didn’t [...]

~ The following was published in The Floyd Press on November 4, 2010 and at the paper’s online site HERE. It’s been more than a year since Floyd’s Blue Mountain School (BMS) announced their new educational philosophy.  In the summer of 2009, after 25 years of being identified as a “parent-run cooperative,” the independent elementary [...]