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Image via Wikipedia I went to Vanderbilt University, which is in Nashville, which is one of the centers of the musical industry. A side effect of this was that I was immersed in music all of the time. Bands were everywhere, and because there was so much competition for any music gig, even the worst … Continue reading Another, different music
My recent high school reunion has brought forth in me a great desire to reminisce, and you get to be part of it all. Music: of course, essential to the lives of most teenagers since radio was invented. I was exposed in college to more of it than the usual student, since I was working … Continue reading Memory, from music
At around the time that I left for college, the emptiness and loneliness that were unavoidably attached to our remote house finally got to my mother. Mom’s mothering instincts, which didn’t lessen with my leaving, needed an object. At that time, teddy bears were enjoying a surge of popularity among children, and thus my mother … Continue reading My mother's bears
The past couple of months have been for me a time of great reflection and remembrance. This is all due to my impending and as-yet unnumbered high school class reunion, and the organizing thereof on Facebook. I can’t begin, for one thing, to believe that we all felt like we were the outsiders. Well, I … Continue reading Getting back to the oldies
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