I do. And here it is again... https://youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk At the time, I was twenty-three and in college. A few months later, I started my first "real" job. Where were you?
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A One-Woman Positivity Machine
There is a fountain of youth: it is in your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. — Sofia Villani Scicolone And there is much more from the young woman who once… Continue reading A One-Woman Positivity Machine
Do I Really Want “A Tiger by the Tail?” Not At My Age 🙄
LOL. Just listening to my boyfriend Willie Nelson's latest-but-one album (I Don't Know a Thing About Love) which is a compilation of the works of country music songwriter/genius Harlan Howard. It includes such gems as Streets of Baltimore (otherwhere recorded by Gram Parsons and featuring a very young Emmylou Harris): https://youtu.be/VjAMoU6es-8 and She Called Me… Continue reading Do I Really Want “A Tiger by the Tail?” Not At My Age 🙄
“We’re off to see the wizard!”
It's been eighty-four years since The Wizard of Oz opened at the Loews Capital Theater in New York City on August 17, 1939. It wasn't the first attempt to capitalize on the L. Frank Baum novel. In fact, by the time 1939 rolled around, there had been a Broadway musical and at least three silent… Continue reading “We’re off to see the wizard!”
Lifting the Curse, and Living to Tell the Tale
On Saturday afternoon, a small group of friends and family and I set out from the farm to enjoy a much looked-forward-to event, Willie Nelson in concert at the nearby (about 30 miles from my front door) Star Lake Amphitheater. I was excited. My entire family, both birth and married, are avid traditional country music fans,… Continue reading Lifting the Curse, and Living to Tell the Tale
Meu Limao: My Lovely Lemon Tree
As many of you know from previous tales of my gardening exploits and my rare modest successes, I generally enter into the fray–in the spirit of Dr. Johnson and his animadversions on second marriages–internalizing the “triumph of hope over experience.” Still, with the help and advice of good friends who are better at it than… Continue reading Meu Limao: My Lovely Lemon Tree
“Come Quickly, I am Tasting the Stars!”
That's the famous quote from the French Benedictine Monk, Dom Perignon, which was supposedly uttered for the first time 330 years ago this evening, on August 4, 1693, when--after considerable effort and quite a few missteps----he and a small group of his fellows are thought to have to have perfected the recipe and the technique… Continue reading “Come Quickly, I am Tasting the Stars!”
Recovering From “Garrison Keillor Disease”
I turn 81 in a few days and I intend to spend my remaining time looking at beautiful things, starting with my wife, and enjoying music and comedy and theater and the writing of writers who make me happy. It isn't what they taught me at the University of Minnesota. They hung T.S. Eliot's "The… Continue reading Recovering From “Garrison Keillor Disease”
Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, It’s Off to Woke We Go!
It seems some photos from the set of Disney’s new, live-action Snow White movie have been leaked and have gone viral, largely via the New York Post. Chief among them is this one: which shows a person (perhaps of the human kind formerly known as ‘woman,’ but I’m afraid to speculate) dressed as an extra from The Handmaid’s Tale,… Continue reading Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, It’s Off to Woke We Go!
Dearest….A Reflection or Two on Human Nature
As we're about to see June, 2023 over the side (Hallelujah! some might say, although the month has been pretty good to me), I thought I'd take a little glimpse into musical history, and see what song was #1 in the USA one-hundred years ago today. Turns out that the winner is "Dearest," sung by… Continue reading Dearest….A Reflection or Two on Human Nature