Posts from ‘December, 2009’

It was the last day of the last year. It was December 31st, 1999. She was 20, he was 27. They didn’t have a penny to their name but they were young and in love. One year earlier they had not yet met, but they were about to celebrate the end of a millennium together. [...]

For the first time in the almost four years of this blog’s life I have not only deleted a couple of comments but even a whole post. I don’t like to do that, I am quite attached to my scribblings, but I guess some time has to be the first. There is no need to [...]

- This was the best Christmas EVER, Alexander declared before going to bed last night. He was barely awake when we opened our Christmas presents yesterday morning. Bakugans, a Michael Jackson CD and poster… every gift brought immediate pleasure and he could barely contain himself. One gift did not bring immediate satisfaction, and I think it [...]

I was in my first rock band in North Carolina in the 1970s. We did a mix of cover tunes by David Bowie, Lou Reed, and Patti Smith, plus original hippie-punk songs and my poetry rants. Controversy arose virtually every time we performed, especially in places like the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh (where [...]

This photo will be printed, put in a box, carefully wrapped and put under the Christmas tree. Along with it will be a long list of names; the names of all of you who were so extraordinarily kind and generous to make a donation. Words can never express my awe and gratitude. Some day, somehow, [...]