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Ray

Ray Kamalay and I are about the same age. Except he has talent. He took his ’74 philosophy degree from U of D and did who knows what, but on the side became quite an accomplished singer and jazz guitarist http://www.raykamalay.com/. I met him November before last when he came to perform for one ofContinue reading “Ray”

how about that Plaquenil?

That much maligned cinchona bark extract derivative got a little boost recently. On January 14, a group out of Hackensack (New Jersey) Meridian Health Network published their findings on the effect of Plaquenil on keeping COVID-infected patients out of the hospital*. They looked at all the patients diagnosed with COVID in their ERs or clinicsContinue reading “how about that Plaquenil?”

those vaccines I

I’ve been meaning for some time now to dive deep into the COVID vaccine literature and produce something intelligible for this blog. The process would help me understand as well. I’ve done a little, but have quite a ways to go before I. can say I understand the whole picture. But today, I answered aContinue reading “those vaccines I”

50 years

Since last July, when the planned 50th reunion celebration for the Vicksburg High School class of 1970 got nixed because COVID, I’ve been setting up Zoom meetings for those classmates of mine with an e-mail address. Initially, I found only 60 or so of those out of our class of 169, but we’d had severalContinue reading “50 years”

Aunt Dorie

How sad and hard it is to write about someone who’s been so important to you. I’ll have to say Aunt Dorie began for me as the baby daughter of Bill and Vera, my mom Marion the star to rise and snatch Dick, who would be my dad. Doris, as the less marriageable, was offContinue reading “Aunt Dorie”

These days

Any boomer music stream, like Spotify, will eventually roll around to play Jackson Browne’s “These days”, a song he wrote at age 16 and made a hit in 1973 from his second album, For Everyman. Greg Allman had a big hand in the song’s arrangements. Across the decades, it still weighs on the shoulders ofContinue reading “These days”

dying spies

‘Tis a sad time when the few remaining pommes from that peck of Northern spies you bought at the farmers’ market now rot in your fruit bowl. The daily apple to keep the doctor away never materialized, and a few great desserts used up most of ‘em. But there is one last mission to whichContinue reading “dying spies”

London Calling

It’s remarkable how fast things can happen on a whim. I get a regular nudge on my e-mail from BestClassicBands.com. Always entertaining stuff immersing me in the music of my boomer past. A recent offering of forgotten hits of the British Invasion included a hit by one young Jonathon King “Everyone’s gone to the moon”Continue reading “London Calling”

Recipes

That’s what I’ve been doing this 10th day of Christmas, feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. There’s the printed pages from Food and Wine that have to get into their sleeves in my ring binders and all those 3X 5 cards I’ve made of new and less legible recipes I’ve had to file. QuiteContinue reading “Recipes”

An ode to 2020

No doubt when the ball drops tonight in Times square, not a soul will shed a tear for the passing of 2020. The appropriate vitriol this tumultuous year has engendered is only poorly represented by a logo someone has come up of it. Dare I confess then, that 2020 has been a pretty good yearContinue reading “An ode to 2020”