Tag: autobiography
member name: Charlie D.
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June 10, 2007 02:04 AM EDT --
I must confess I don't feel sixty. I feel like I'm in my early
40s, and a nice lady at a store where I went today thought
I was fifty when I said today was my birthday even though
both my hair . . .
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June 18, 2007 03:53 PM EDT --
Birthed a step into Charon's dark ferry
Fighting to breathe, battling for life
Ominously, no mercy, in swift fashion
Atropos hovered with evil intent close by
Terrible, vigilant with her deadly shears . . .
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August 17, 2007 12:03 PM EDT --
This was the breathless report from a local reporter
in Lincoln NE thirty years ago this afternoon. I was
both shocked and saddened by the news, especially
when it was reported he had died of a drug overdose. . . .
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June 14, 2007 12:18 AM EDT --
In response to a thread on CREWRT-L recently,
I thought I might offer "books that changed" me
over the formative years before I started keeping
book logs (which began in 1969), something I've . . .
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June 06, 2007 03:44 PM EDT --
Yesterday was my third son's 25th birthday. Charlie
was given tickets to go see the Dead Sea scrolls
exhibit at KC's Union Station (now used as an
exhibition hall) and he was quite excited about . . .
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June 09, 2007 02:04 AM EDT --
The full title of the book by Joshua Wolf Shenk is
Lincoln's Melancholy, How Depression Challenged
a President and Fueled His Greatness. I know some
who read this don't think Lincoln was great . . .
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July 02, 2007 11:06 PM EDT --
I've been to a number of places that I would consider
spiritual places - my late father's place in Virginia, the
rain forest on the Olympic Peninsula that Renny and I
. . .
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July 01, 2007 02:00 AM EDT --
This is an attempt to be a journal entry, a travel
commentary, a few observations about history,
a mention of a book or two, comments about
"collecting libraries," a few notes about recent . . .
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