Loose Leaf Notes

A Halloween Hang-out Eye See You The Bouncer and the Doorman Till Death Do Us Part

I don’t do Halloween costumes as much as I do “get-ups.” A hat, a wig, a prop (and it all has to be something I can dance in) is usually enough to get me into a Halloween party unrecognized.  This year I went to two dance parties dressed kind of poet/punk.  When people asked about […]

 Sunday Shadow Shot at the Black Water Loft.

~ The following appeared in The Floyd Press on October 27, 2011 with an extended spread of photos and captions. A cowgirl caravan of women traveling with vintage campers was back in Floyd over the weekend for a “Sisters on the Fly” Blue Ridge Hoedown at Daddy Rabbits Campground in Willis.   Campground owner Marian Smith […]

1. “Let your fingers do the walking,” the old yellow pages phone book refrain, has taken on a whole new meaning in today’s world of high speed computing. 2. Last night I was ordering pictures from Walmart.com, watching a video of Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie at Occupy Wall Street in New York and writing […]

My soul is like a goldfish that wants to be seen but doesn’t like attention  ________________ The ocean is too big the fishbowl too small I’m afraid to be abandoned but want to be alone _________________  In a dream I grow legs carry the fishbowl outside where sunlight swallows shadows and  happy cats chase sparrows […]

The Little River in Floyd is poet/artist Jack Callan’s Walden Pond, the place he travels from Norfolk to about six times a year to camp, write poetry and paint.   For the past few years Jack, who is a carpenter by trade,  had been coming to Floyd’s monthly Spoken Word night to read his poetry whenever […]

The following was published in The Floyd Press on October 20, 2011.   A fashion show luncheon emceed by designer and artist Jeanie O’Neill took place Saturday in the sunny gallery setting of Natasha’s Market Café.  The show featured O’Neill’s originally designed and locally-made apparel and her one-of-a-kind bags. Also featured were originally designed handmade clothes […]

~The following appeared in The Floyd Press on October 20, 2011 A group of citizens gathered in the Warren Lineberry Park Saturday to show their support for Occupy Wall Street (OWS), the ongoing protest of corporate greed and influence that began in New York City four weeks ago. Rallies in solidarity of the OWS protesters […]

1. Last night I saw a guy on TV wearing glasses with one lens round and the other one square. He was an artist of course. 2. I haven’t been good about matching my socks lately. At least they are all black. 3. THIS guy has explaining Occupy Wall Street in less than a minute […]

Wordless Wednesday

If you are quiet be loud If you are loud be quiet Don’t laugh if you don’t get the joke Don’t cheat Wear red If you are generous be frugal If you are frugal be generous Give away all your ill fitting clothing Give up your place in line It’s okay to ask for directions […]

I went to a tea party, a fashion show luncheon, heard Belfast-born Tom Martin perform at open mic set at the Floyd Country Store Open Mic, covered Occupy Wall Street Floyd for the local paper, went to old-time mountain singer Janet Turner’s CD release concert, and checked out the Art on the Parkway scene.  Thank […]

This is where I live, the Blue Ridge Parkway.  The critters and I have to share it with the tourists every October.

1. I just got a Facebook invitation to attend a Sun Hall Music concert of a band named Ultraviolet Hippopotamus. 2. In the last couple of weeks I’ve heard (and danced to) live music by Love Farm, Mighty Shakey, Ember Swift and Boris Garica. 3. I was watching the PBS special “The Rise and Fall […]

________________ Sometimes I get nostalgic for my pink suede bell bottom pants and the maroon Indian print bag with the mirrors on it or the gypsy scarf that I wore as a shawl and sold at a yard sale in Texas because we had to stuff everything we owned into one U-haul trailer when we moved […]

~ The following appeared in The Floyd Press on October 6, 2011 Blue Mountain School hosted a Harvest Festival for students, parents and friends on Thursday September 22nd.   It was the school’s first event of the 2011/2012 school year and gave school director Shelly Emmett an opportunity to show visitors the school’s new expanded early […]