(Attention email subscribers ... did you know that many of the images in your email are clickable as videos with sound? Give it a try!) Del: I wasn't the only one assigned to the personal letters, officially deemed "Condolence Notes, or "CNs", to the next-of-kin for deceased soldiers. Three others-- Homer, Jay, and Rocco-- were... Continue Reading →
(Attention email subscribers ... did you know that many of the images in your email are clickable as videos with sound? Give it a try!) Del: I got out of the hospital in Saigon and was temporarily assigned to the office of the quartermaster. Our job, collectively to make sure equipment, materials and systems were... Continue Reading →
(Attention email subscribers ... did you know that many of the images in your email are clickable as videos with sound? Give it a try!) Greg: You watch the news. You hear the body counts. Suddenly, everything took on a new dimension. Reality ... I guess it's called. Del didn't write a lot, but he... Continue Reading →
(Attention email subscribers ... did you know that many of the images in your email are clickable as videos with sound? Give it a try!) Del: The next three weeks were an advanced course in tedium, interrupted only by letters from Greg and Cassandra and nightly dreams of Pamela. An air of fatalism hovered over... Continue Reading →
(Attention email subscribers ... did you know that many of the images in your email are clickable as videos with sound? Give it a try!) Del: On Saturday night, the Brewsters put on a big, celebratory dinner for me. I was wearing borrowed civvies of Greg's. His two sisters were there, Cassandra, and his mother... Continue Reading →
(Attention email subscribers ... did you know that many of the images in your email are clickable as videos with sound? Give it a try!) Six Separate Planets https://videopress.com/v/4zhluJkC?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&posterUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fvideos.files.wordpress.com%2F4zhluJkC%2Fsix-separate-planets_mp4.scrubthumb-1.jpg&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Greg: That first semester at college seemed to last forever. Cassandra was bugging me to teach her the guitar, and she picked it up pretty quickly.... Continue Reading →
Six Separate Planets https://videopress.com/v/4zhluJkC?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&posterUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fvideos.files.wordpress.com%2F4zhluJkC%2Fsix-separate-planets_mp4.scrubthumb-1.jpg&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Greg: That first semester at college seemed to last forever. Cassandra was bugging me to teach her the guitar, and she picked it up pretty quickly. Then she wanted me to teach her Six Separate Planets which was another Little Prince song I had written the previous summer, although we had... Continue Reading →
A Sad Refrain Greg: And, poof! There he was ... gone ... Del ... my classmate ... my bandmate ... my best friend. I was devastated. The plan ... over. College starting next week. Leaving home. Moving into a dorm. No Del. Band over. Cassandra back to high school. What the fuck happened? I tried... Continue Reading →
Is it "graffiti" (two "f"and one "t) or "grafitti"? I can never remember ... The episodes to date have covered a highly-concentrated, but surprisingly broad, spectrum of experiences. Between them our young heroes have fallen in love, experience success on a statewide level, honed their musical craft, become sexually active, gone to the beach (a... Continue Reading →
Del: They say ... don't ask me who the hell "they" are ... there are only two stories in life. 1. A man (I know, not appropriate language these days, but I'm not "they") goes on a journey, 2. A stranger comes to town. I know who I am. Maybe that was the case for... Continue Reading →
