Archive | June, 2010

29 June 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Was I That Drunk?

Here’s a fun practical joke that I pulled on a dear friend of ours when I lived in Canada many years ago. First of all, you have to realize that this guy friend of ours loved his old van more than life itself. They lived down the road from us and this guy was always [...]

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28 June 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Elizabeth On The Loose

A few posts ago I told you about the Mazda Miata that I once had and how much fun it was. This is one of my favorite Miata moments. We lived in a small sub-division in Boone,NC. Down the street lived an elderly couple Elizabeth and Thurman Tripp. They were always out on their front [...]

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26 June 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The Magic Keys

I know many of you have had weird amazing things happen to you before. Here’s an amazing thing that happened to us  the other day. We were headed out of town on Hwy 40 going up to Boone. We had been driving for about twenty minutes on the highway when this big blue pickup truck [...]

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11 June 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Joy And Grief

I lost my mother-n-law Patricia Tuesday night to lung cancer.  I am glad that she is at rest now and that she has been released of the suffering. I’m sitting here listening to Snatam Kaur and Krishna Das for comfort. It makes me cry but it’s lovely. I had a wonderful relationship with my mother-n-law [...]

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08 June 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Surprise! It’s A Car!

Surprise! It’s A Car! One of my most joyous moments was receiving a Mazda Miata for my 40th birthday. Ken threw a surprise party for me at a friends house which was absolutely beautiful. They lived on twelve acres and had this beautiful home with lovely gardens. My friend was a caterer so you can [...]

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02 June 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Wig Parties

In the 1970′s when I was singing on the road I had a head of long, big, curly, wild hair. Diana Ross had nothing on me. Night after night I’d perform with this mop and as I got hot and started to sweat, the hair would grow to a mountain of fuzz. I decided to [...]

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