Mar 15, 2024 | Memoir, Music, Travel
Here’s my attempt of a recap of the 2024 80s Cruise. Overall, a wonderful time. Despite falling and slightly spraining my ankle, it was a wonderful time. Another week where we sometimes had to try to figure out when we would have time to eat because there was so much...
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...
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...
Sep 16, 2023 | Memoir, Travel
Russ and I undertook our second road trip in as many months. For two people who say they’re too old to travel like this, we’ve certainly bucked the system this Summer. This time, I drove most of the way up, until we started getting closer to Northern Virginia and the...
Sep 13, 2023 | Duran Duran, Memoir, Music, Travel
My first-ever concert at the Capitol One Arena in Washington, DC, went well, overall. The venue was nice enough. My seat, in the Center Section (“Simon’s Section,” as Duranies call it), Row J, seat 7 – right in the middle of the row – was pretty much right in the...
Aug 18, 2023 | Memoir, Travel
August was insanely busy for me. In addition to taking the Magic Circle Summer Class with Diane Zinna each weekday from 9-10 a.m. and going to Table Rock Writers Workshop the final week of the month (when I missed the last three days of Magic Circle Summer), Russ and...
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