Loose Leaf Notes

1. I like to type “okeedoke” instead of “yes” just to piss off my spell checker.

2. I find the little yellow triangle icon with an exclamation point in it annoying.

3. My Exclamation poem: A kiss with punctuation … indicates excitement … long and thoughtful … to the point … ending quickly … with a flair … the exclamation kiss!

4. THIS was really unsettling, seeing my blog translated into redneck, jive, Elmer Fudd speech, and more…

5. I received a three part meme last week from poet/blogger Felicia Mitchell. The questions and answers are as follows: 1. The last book you purchased? Odd Botany, a book of poetry by Thorpe Moeckel, after he gave a reading at Floyd’s Café Del Sol. 2. The last film/network series DVD you purchased? The movie Elf for my daughter-in-law’s daughter for Christmas. 3. The last music or spoken word recording you purchased? No Promises, a CD by Carla Bruni, in which she sings the words of poems written by poets like Emily Dickinson and more.

6. More press on the Teen Meditation Retreat. This one was written by a recent high school graduate who attended the retreat on assignment for the Virginian Pilot in Norfolk HERE.

7. At first it seemed that my husband Joe had fallen under the seduction of a mistress. Since he took on the task of coordinating on-site parking for FloydFest ‘07, I hadn’t seen him in days. For the past five years, he’s volunteered his time in exchange for a weekend pass, but this year, as the Floyd high school soccer coach, he signed on to head up one of the most intensive behind-the-scenes jobs. In exchange, FloydFest makes a substantial donation to the soccer program to help with the purchase of uniforms and equipment … I knew if I wanted to spend any time with Joe I would have to come into the fold, which meant seeing FloydFest through the windshield of his golf cart. ~ Excerpt from A FloydFest Date, a story I wrote after last year’s FloyFest that appeared in the program this year.

8. At the festival quite a few people who had read the above story came up to me to ask how the date was going. I answered, “Which date? The one with Joe or the one with Governor Warner?" See HERE and HERE.

9. Now that the corn and tomatoes are coming in like gangbusters, ready for picking and eating, it’s hard to pull myself away for my planned trip to Hull, Massachusetts, (the peninsula I grew up on) to visit my family.

10. The good news is that the corn came in just when the cold sore on my lip cleared up, which means I can eat it salted and buttered, painlessly.

11. We get paid in corn for We get paid in corn … for our garden labor … We strike it rich … with every husk … pulled back … The sun has forged … an Aztec banquet … a silky purse … for August gold … More HERE.

12. “Don’t tell people how to live their lives. Just tell stories and they’ll figure out how the story applies to them.” ~ Randy Pausch October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008

13. When we were kids and we’d ask our dad to tell us a story, this is what he’d say: I”ll tell you a story of Jack and the Dory. Now my story’s begun. I’ll tell you another of Jack and his brother. Now my story’s all done.

Post notes: The photo above is of the walkie talkie my husband used while working at FloydFest (See and scroll HERE) this year. He knows I collect 13’s and made sure to point it out to me. Thursday headquarters is here. My other 13's are here. View more 13 Thursday’s here. #144.