I am not in the least bit ashamed to admit to my guilty pleasure: for the past several years on most weekdays I have lunch with a hot Latin redhead. On Friday’s I get lucky when my hot Hawg-loving girlfriend makes it a threesome. Yes…I watch “The People’s Court” with Judge Marilyn Milian (“the hottest…
Yesterday I made “an announcement” to 3 friends as we traveled the back roads from Pittsburg, KS to Springfield. Maybe only 2 of them heard me; Bruce mighta been snoozing at the time. We were coming home after a fantastic house concert by Paul Thorn at the Coda Concert House in Joplin and a fabulous…
Man-oh-man do I need to get busy or what?? I have been a total sluggard since I posted my bucket list just a bit short of two years ago, mid-march of ’17. Yet somehow I was diagnosed with fatigue on my birthday last September and advised to slow down… And I had TOTALLY forgotten about…
The dreaded letter (reproduced below if you dare) will get sent to some folks via e-mail. They’ll also get this link to the JibJab: https://www.jibjab.com/view/make/disco_christmas/b079887c-1399-46b3-99d9-734253cdf3e0 -=-==–=-= Hope your 2018 has been a good year. Mine was a dandy. Saw more live music than ever. It was Awesome. Crossed several artists off my “bucket list”…a bunch of…
It’s short. It’s simple. It’s true. Love trumps hate. Period. The 33rd Imagine Concert was the last “large venue” concert of the year for me, unless something unforeseen happens. I saw LOTS of large venue shows in 2018. 12/8/18 was a great evening in too many ways to list….but I’ll try: Friends Bar food Music…
Like the lyrics of Alanis Morissette’s song, what follows is not ironic. But maybe it’s situational irony. Whatever it is, it is a two part story. Part One. We went to Shelly’s youngest for Thanksgiving dinner. It’s about 50 miles from our apartment to Eric&Ashton’s place in Ava. We left at about 4. The crowd:…
I’ve seen the Truckers several times in the past few years. I had never listened to them before I moved into The Abbey in fall of 2011. I’m sure glad that I took a friend’s recommendation and gave them a listen. (Thanks Gray!!) The Truckers can be profound & loud. I like that. Loud is…
On the first Friday of April in 1974, I had been living in my folks back room in Farmington, MO for a few months, but I was heading back to college in Cape Girardeau the next week. About to receive an undergrad education degree, I had just finished my 8 weeks of student teaching at…
“You are what you listen to…” appears in the title of 3 of my blog posts. Assuming there is some validity to those 6 words, what you recommend REALLY must say something!! The other day I mailed a flash drive to the first person who became a friend after moving to Orygun in 1976. Kevin…
I wrote about 7 “firsts” a year ago. Some fond memories there. Only one First this time. A sound. A sound that is unmistakeable, and not just the first time it’s heard. It’s the power. All that power. The sound of an ocean is a beautiful sound. The first time I heard it was almost…