Loose Leaf Notes

“The reason people need this is the same reason they need to get out in nature or visit a farm. To reconnect. When people come here, they get to meet the artists; they like that. I’m in here being as real as I can because people are buying a part of my life.”  ~ Josh [...]

1. Renting movies that are due back the next day is sort of like taking Viagra without knowing if you’ll be in the mood. 2. CNN: Is it possible to have a safe nuclear power plant? Helen Caldicott: No. 3. I have two stories in THIS real page turner. 4. Interactive outer space light show [...]

Wordless Wednesday

~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on March 31, 2011. About 50 people gathered at Natasha’s Market Café last Saturday for an Evening of Cabaret to benefit the upcoming inaugural season of The National Music Festival (NMF) to be held in Floyd.   The cabaret featured performances of classic and comical songs from [...]

“Your dancing feels cooler than it looks when you’re in a giant pint glass costume,” said my Asheville potter son Josh who was looking at pictures of himself break-dancing at the Asheville Idiotarod, a 5K race for awesomeness done while pushing a tricked-out shopping cart. Josh is a whiz with foam rubber.  He’s a Wedge [...]

~ The following was published in The Floyd Press on March 24, 2011 Travelers driving between downtown Floyd and Check on Route 221 are sure to take notice of Sweet Providence Farm’s red-roofed, timber-framed Farm Market and Bakery perched on a hill.   The farm’s neat rows of Christmas trees, an old-timey truck bearing signs of [...]