I just spent several days in western Massachusetts with some of my dearest friends, hanging out, catching up, and attending 3 mighty fine concerts in the Alice’s Restaurant Church, now known as the Guthrie Center. We were the test audience for the 9 month tour that starts in a day or two – the Guthries [...]
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October in New England 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abe Guthrie, Annie Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Dennis Lachappelle, Guthrie Center 2009, Jackie Guthrie, John Claeys, Johnny Irion, Judy Beisler, Regina Claeys, Sarah Lee Guthrie, Sherry Hochman, Sue Schier, Terry a la Berry Hall on October 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
That silver-haired daddy of mine
Posted in mortality, tagged aging, Father's Day, fathers on June 24, 2009 | 9 Comments »
It’s been 62 years since my dad and I spent our first Father’s Day together. I was tiny, red-headed, and precocious (I started walking at 7 months, yes, that’s the truth, several witnesses who weren’t even related to me swear it’s so!) and Daddy was tall and handsome and strong, with jet black hair and [...]
Death and Taxes
Posted in Arlo Guthrie, friends, tagged Comanche Public Library, death and taxes, Dennis Lachappelle, Don Conoscenti, High Flight, Kinky Friedman, Margaret Waring on February 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Nothing is inevitable, as they say, except death and taxes. We all pay our taxes to support our democratic government, right? Well, apparently everyone may get taxed, but if you’re high enough above the huddled masses you may get away with not paying them – unless you get picked for a top government [...]
Welcome home, soldier
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged B-26, Comanche, Hulbert Robertson, Taps, Taylor's Chapel, Texas on November 13, 2008 | 6 Comments »
November 11, 2008: on a bright, sunny day, friends and relatives of 2nd Lt. Hulbert H. Robertson came to the little country cemetery at Taylor’s Chapel, near Comanche, Texas, to honor one of their own. In one of my early posts, “Gone but never forgotten,” I told the story of how my half sister [...]
Texans Don’t Like Ike
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
While we were watching Gustav a couple of weeks ago, Tropical Storm Ike was reving up to cross the Atlantic and strike a killing blow on Haiti, Cuba and other spots in between Africa and the Gulf of Mexico. This time, having learned some hard lessons from Katrina and Rita, the people of the Texas [...]
Woody Fest
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Annie Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Blunderites, folk singers, John Flynn, John Gorka, Woody Guthrie on July 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Just got back from the 11th annual Woody Fest in Okemah, Oklahoma, and boy, am I tired! For several days I hung out with my Blunderite friends and listened to some fine folk singers and got to meet some of them. Who knew John Gorka was so funny?
Or that John Flynn is so [...]
Lee Child Rocks!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I spent Sunday afternoon in the company of the charming, handsome, and devilishly talented mystery author Lee Child. Alas for me, there was also a roomful of other fans of his Jack Reacher series, at Houston’s finest bookstore, Murder by the Book. Reacher is an American ex-M.P. – Military Police, not Member of [...]
