Loose Leaf Notes

After not playing with me for 30 years and then being mostly home for nearly a year, it was a pandemic adjustment well made. We also did a fish and chips newsprint crossword puzzle together and we got every space filled! Nod to the Parkway Grille for the food and service! I recommend the bourbon […]

-The following 2020 review was done by excerpting the first line or few in one post from each month last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January – A High IQ: The moon shines / outside the box / With a genius of light / it illuminates […]

There wasn’t a lot of glitter and there were no throngs of dancers on the floor at Dogtown’s New Year’s Eve Pre-party. But we did a few twirls, sways and spins with our masks on next to our reserved corner table. My friend Juniper posted on Facebook, “How we will remember 2020!! I have officially […]

It Rained on Christmas Eve so Santa brought an umbrella. The morning started with a red cardinal sighting, which may as well have been a sighting of the man in red to me. Hopa Santa does the stockings in the workshop every year. It’s his thing. Rats! For the cool cats. Let’s get this Merry […]

We went out last night to see the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn that hasn’t happened in 800 years –  aka as The Christmas Star and said to be the star that guided the wise men to Jesus – but it was too cloudy. I did a little research and found that the Christmas […]

When it’s too warm for snow but too cold for rain ice is the price  ________________Our World Tuesday

That was my dear poet/writer friend Alwyn’s title, once we could finally talk, however brief, through a screened and venetian blinded window at the care facility she is at. She dictated it to me. She couldn’t hear me well because her hearing isn’t good, but I heard her via our phones. She said, “I’ll tell […]

It was a Christmas lights extravaganza timed to music of the season, the Daklights in Dublin, about a 45 min – to an hour’s drive from us. I quickly figured out that I got the best pictures by shaking the camera as I clicked. Their write-up description says, “Since its inception in 2010, the show […]

A pen and notebook: a writer’s best friend when doing an interview. My grandson Liam’s bakery tasting critic’s review: MMMMM Story on Buffalo Mountain Bakery and owner/baker Jessie Benson coming soon to The Floyd Press.

This is Joe on the phone with his mother who was wishing him Happy Birthday after he spent the day working online out of his truck and being at the DMV because his license was about to expire. Then we realized it was because it was his birthday! After he talked with his mom, he […]