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Category Archives: Born On This Date
Happy Birthday, My Love
Today is The Wife’s birthday! As is my usual tradition, below is the post that I reuse every year and keep adding to in really ungainly fashion. This post actually first lived on the old BlogSpot incarnation of this site … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily Life Stuff, The Wife
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Something for Thursday (Friday edition)
Regular posting still isn’t resuming (I just finished up an extremely busy work week, and now The Wife and I are getting out of town for a short getaway, and then next week has some other challenges forthcoming but we’ll … Continue reading
“Any way the wind blows….”
Yesterday was Freddie Mercury’s birthday; he would have been 79. Sheila O’Malley has a great post about him, and you should go read it: It’s his birthday today. It’s hard for me to talk about my feelings for Freddie Mercury. … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Billy Shakes
Today is the generally-observed “birthday” of William Shakespeare. The actual date he entered the world is not known, but April 26, 1564 is the best we have: that was his baptismal date. As babies typically weren’t baptized right at birth, … Continue reading
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A Belated Birthday Wish to The Lydster
The Lydster, if I am reading things correctly, is 20 now. “Who?!” you may ask. A reasonable question, so I shall provide a reasonable answer: The Lydster is Roger Owen Green’s daughter Lydia. Roger has been chronicling her growth and … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, My Love
As I keep adding to this post every year, and with cross-posting it and importing it from my old blog to this one, I suppose it gets a bit more ungainly each year. Well, that’s just the way it is. … Continue reading
Eddie
Born this date: Edward Van Halen, in 1955. This is what I wrote when he died, in 2020–but I’d rather honor him on the day on which he was born. It took me a while to start loving rock music. … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Eighty-nine years ago today, Carl Sagan was born. Sagan is one of the true giants of my life, the people whose work shaped me into who I am today. A very large part of how I view the world comes … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Born this date, 125 years ago today: the great George Gershwin. I was actually going to post this piece last week before I suddenly head an “Oh!” moment, one of those cliche moments when the sitcom person slaps their own … Continue reading
“Do you remember America?”
It’s July 4. A repost from one year ago: “Do you remember America?” the curious person will ask one night, in a darkened tavern as they nurse their second or third drink. “The country tried to codify freedom and democracy? … Continue reading