80s Cruise 2025

80s Cruise 2025

Apr 18, 2025 | Memoir, Music

Another 80s Cruise has come and gone. And it went way too fast, of course. In most ways. Tragedy struck early. Our first show in Studio B on Sunday night was Faster Pussycat, a band I knew only one song by, which is not uncommon for some of the harder rock/metal...
Monkeyland

Monkeyland

Mar 16, 2025 | Memoir

On this year’s 80s Cruise, we visited the ports of Nassau in the Bahamas, San Juan in Puerto Rico, and Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. Having been to Nassau and San Juan several times, we opted not to take excursions in either of those cities on this trip. In...
Parable of the Long Spoons

Parable of the Long Spoons

Mar 15, 2025 | Writing Life

I’d never heard this story before. The gist of it is that a man asks the difference between heaven and hell. He is shown a door where people are starving, despite a huge pot of delicious-smelling stew being at their disposal, because all they have to feed themselves...
Here I Go Again

Here I Go Again

Feb 27, 2025 | Memoir

It’s almost that time again. That time of year when I get on a Royal Caribbean ship and go back in time with about 4000 other 80s enthusiasts, usually the same ship that has just the previous week hosted the same number of Trekkies from around the world. Yes, the...
Buffalo

Buffalo

Feb 21, 2025 | Memoir

“I got a pocket full of quarters/and I’m headed to the arcade…” It’s not exactly the Arcade, but that’s what Russ and I like to call it. And it’s not Pac-Man Fever – for me, it’s all about BUFFALO! This is a post about...
Writing Recap January and February

Writing Recap January and February

Feb 16, 2025 | Writing Life

My big writing adventure in January was Tennessee Mountain Writers’ January Jumpstart on January 18-19, in Oak Ridge, TN. We had two workshop speakers, Lisa Coffey for Poetry and Robert Gipe for Fiction. I was in Robert Gipe’s workshop. As always, Robert was...