Coming Back to Myself

Coming Back to Myself

Mar 14, 2024 | Memoir, Music, Travel

I’ve been off the ship a week and am still suffering the 80s Cruise Hangover. I look forward to this cruise every year for approximately fifty-one weeks, then we get to go back in time to my favorite decade for one full week. And then we’re thrust back into the...
Strange Days Indeed

Strange Days Indeed

Mar 11, 2024 | Memoir, Music, Travel

After a week on the 80s Cruise, I’m not sure anything seems as strange as it typically does. On Pop Icon night, for example, there were seven Madonnas lined up in a row, all from different stages of her career. There were two Chers from the “Turn Back Time” video, one...
Noah Spencer

Noah Spencer

Feb 15, 2024 | Memoir, Music

When my friend Kandy Kiser Howlett and I saw Noah Spencer as part of the Holiday Showcase at The Paramount before Christmas, I was impressed with the young man. So impressed that I’ve been looking for opportunities to catch him doing his own gig ever since. I thought...
Miracles

Miracles

Jan 27, 2024 | Memoir

I’ve never been interested in running a 5K. I’ve never been interested in running anything. Because I’m predisposed to asthma attacks and have been my entire life.  Remember gym class in school when you had to run the 600-yard dash? The 80s were hell with the...
Snow Days

Snow Days

Jan 15, 2024 | Memoir

We rarely have a real snow day, anymore. But today, one materialized. Of course it did. It’s an inconvenience because we’re trying to leave for Chicago tomorrow morning and today was a holiday, so we couldn’t get anything done in terms of going to the bank or doing a...