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About Me

Just looking for sanctuary in songs, colors, truth and laughter.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Alive: Pete Townshend, Ray Davies, Chrissie Hynde, Christina Amphlett, Gary "the voice" Brooker, Jeff Beck, Jimmie Page, Thom Yorke (we almost met), Gary Oldman, Martin Scorsese.Dead: Stanley Kubrick, Meher Baba, George Harrison, Edith Piaf, Mick Ronson, Marc Bolan, David Lean, Peter Sellers, Moira Shearer & Anton Walbrook together for breakfast by a piano.In the "Not Sure if Dead or Alive, but mainly Transcendent" category: Her Highness, Anita O'Day.

My Blog

Clowntime is Over

(D MacManus)Tears on your blackmailWritten to ransomA point of the fingernailSays that he's handsomeClowntime is overTime to take coverWhile others just talk and talkSomebody's watching where the othe...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:49:00 GMT

Update on Snuggles

My 2-year-old grand-nephew, Matthew (aka Snuggles), will soon undergo a second craniotomy to remove more of the tumor on his hypothalamus.  Please say a prayer for him,  think of my family t...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:33:00 GMT

Do we know you?

My mom will be the first to admit this.  She is not the most trusting soul on earth.  She was born the 4th of 6 on a berry farm in Bedford County.  Cleo and Shep were planting when she ...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:33:00 GMT

Update on the Snug-Meister

Snuggles had a very successful surgery.  85% of the tumor was removed and he is home at last.  Through the 7.5 hour surgery, his vitals stayed strong.  The biggest challenge was keeping...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:40:00 GMT

My winter memory...

Mom had a couple years in the late 60's when she knitted everything.  She made me a hat/scarf/mitten set that was dark blue and green.  A truly late 60's combination, but very stylish.In the...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:16:00 GMT

Oscar Levant

He was just bent.  Bent hands, bent fingers, bent smile, bent sensibility.  He was raised in the Hill District in Pittsburgh and forever seemed to be out of breath from running up that hill....
Posted by on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:16:00 GMT

Goodnight, Ted. Slumber peacefully. I miss you.

Faust Canata  Winslow Leach   Half asleep I hear a voice. Is it only in my mind? Or is it someone calling me, Someone I failed and left behind?  To work it out I let them in All...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:18:00 GMT

To Clifford E Hershberger

To my stepfather, Cliff.  My personal hero.  You have been my father longer than my own father, Jack.  I'm sure Jack is glad that you have been there for us.  I know I am.Thank you...
Posted by on Sun, 27 May 2007 22:01:00 GMT

Well, I've bloody well decided, then... Haven't I?..

I'm buying a bass.  It's time.  Judy, don't be mad.  Yours will always be the cutest bass on earth (I have a picture of you and its Blue Loveliness in my pics.)  What sealed the de...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:31:00 GMT

We lost Pete in April but it's ok

Show me the way and I'll set you free, what you oughta be Tell me the day and I'll let you see what you do to me Well, it's not enough to live If you're gonna take, then you have to give We're for the...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:23:00 GMT