Chrissie’s Blog
Write It Down
It has been a while since I’ve written about my writing activities, so I’ll back up a little to include the past couple of months. At the end of March, I went to Denton’s for a week (March 20-27) to get some writing done. I came away with four poems, a couple of other...
80s Cruise 2025
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...
Take It to the Limit
Unlike any concert experience I've ever had! Almost like a 3-D movie-scape that 17,600 people have just been dropped into, the immersive experience "takes you" into whatever content has been created for the songs being performed. It’s like we’re all in every video...
Wild, Wild West
On Sunday, April, 13, we traveled to Grand Canyon West. Our first stop was Joshua Tree Forest in Arizona, just past Dolan Springs, AZ. I'm familiar with the Joshua Tree only because that's the name of the immensely popular U2 album that solidified their chart-topping...
You Have to Believe We Are Magic
Spent a laid-back day with Russ on Saturday, April 12, just hanging out, playing games and eating at The Rio before Penn & Teller's show that night. Missed seeing Gene Simmons in the KISS store by about 5 minutes. He was in there while I was having my picture made...
Monkeyland
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...