Part three of my ongoing journal entries about life in the time of the 2020 Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, with input from Laurie in Spain. Part One (Jan-Mar, 2020) is here. Part Two (April, 2020) is here. May 1 It’s May Day. Seems appropriate. There’s a report out today from the University of Minnesota (actual report, …
I wrote a post of appreciation for John Prine shortly before he passed away. It made me realize there are other artists for whom I’d like to share an appreciation while they are still active and hopefully have many more years with us. The first of these that came to mind was Richard Thompson. Richard …
We once again spent July 4 in Ocean City with the Harders. I think we tried out a different condo, but otherwise we were getting into a groove. Traditions included a carryout dinner of ribs the first night (usually from J/R’s, now closed), dinner at a small Italian place we liked (Antipasti, I think), one …
Allie’s first visit to Disney World. We did it up right with a six night package, February 6-12, visiting all the (then-extant) parks. We felt it appropriate that Allie’s first big trip, now that she was a full four-and-a-half years old, should be to Disney World. After all, we had spent her entire lifetime inundating …
Welcome the 21st century! Back before Allie and Maddie were born, we spent several New Year’s Eves with the Harders at which Larry and I would fantasize (quite seriously, at the time) about where to celebrate New Year’s for the new millennium. As I recall, our conclusion was that the coolest place would be Sydney, …
I came to the songs of John Prine indirectly, initially in the early 1970’s through John Denver’s cover of “Paradise” which I learned to play on guitar. The chords were easy, the conversational lyrics were memorably poignant but not too sappy, and I could just about sing them on key. I wasn’t smart enough to …
Part two of my ongoing journal entries about life in the time of the 2020 Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, with input from Laurie in Spain. Part One is here. April 2, 2020 I’m taking it as good news that since we’ve been home more than two weeks, we can definitely say we didn’t get sick from …
Events that crossed my radar and memories, these many years later. This effort is aided and abetted by reviewing Wikipedia’s listings of each year’s events, in this case, 1975 and 1976. 1975 As 1975 started, I was in 11th grade in Hong Kong and had just met Barb but we were not yet dating. I was …
July started once again with Christine’s 5th birthday party at Patti’s. Followed by Maddie’s 4th party in the Harders’ backyard in Baltimore. We have a discrepancy here because we also went to a summer birthday party which Barb also thought was for Maddie at the Harder’s house. I’m not so sure, but haven’t figured out …
Our New Year’s girl at home, ready to party like it’s 1999! We don’t have any other photos so I suspect the was a New Year’s Eve spent at home with Dick Clark rockin’ the countdown on TV. Barb notes this is a nightgown that Grandmom made Allie. Grandmom was especially proud of the smocking …