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This one woke me from my nap today as it rolled around on John Fogerty Spotify https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqYiHkx7ils.  For me, it dates to my University of Chicago years (’75-9), particularly the first.  I think it was the break up song for me and Mary Ann, a tall, buxom, sassy, social work student from New Hyde ParkContinue reading “late for the sky”

I had occasion to send something to my Dixie chick (South Carolina) friend Donna today. I’ve mentioned her before in a few posts. One has a nice picture of her https://wordpress.com/post/theviewfromharbal.com/1101. She was my old chief’s secretary (er, administrative assistant). We always got along and had fun at work, and have become very good friendsContinue reading “thoughts shared with Donna on Decoration Day”

The contagion of applying today’s morals to great men of the past and hanging them by it has come to Ann Arbor.  A committee of eight historians, one of them my friend and fellow U of C classmate Joel Howell, has examined the evidence and judged that Fielding H. Yost’s name should be removed fromContinue reading “deathless loyalty”

Mussels mania continues unchecked at Harbal! For many years, Thursday evenings at our place have been reserved for “Jesus dinner”, a simple repast befitting our Lord consisting of fish, bread, and wine.  It grew out of my weekly foray to East Ann Arbor (EAA) medical campus, where higher ups deemed I should go see patientsContinue reading “clearly non-kosher mussels for Jesus dinner”

I don’t know how I stumbled onto this. But John Prine Spotify passed it by me once again tonight. Every boomer needs to hear this, again and again. Before this, I didn’t know who Rodney Crowell was. Now I have tickets to see him at City Winery in Chicago on Veteran’s Day. For fun, we’reContinue reading “the best”

Spotify runs so many by you. Tonight its the John Prine channel, which features very little John Prine. But some squeaks through, like the one below. This one was borne as something to roll over the credits of a movie. Daddy and them,https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166158/ about a dysfunctional family headed by Andy Griffith (!), with Billy BobContinue reading “quick tune”

Kathy and I spent a wonderful early Saturday afternoon at lunch in Hopleaf in Andersonville https://hopleafbar.com.  We took a long Red Line ride to Uptown then a walk over to Clark, where the bustling once-Scandinavian neighborhood sits.  Our lunch feast was a full order of mussels accompanied by a big cone of frites and ailoi,Continue reading “Belgae moules!”

If you’ve got a Kindle and a spare buck, you can read my new book! Actually, it’s just a 9-page essay about an event from my youth. I thought it was too long and too deep to post on this blog. Here’s the link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095BS8VRJ I think Amazon gives me 30 cents. I probably willContinue reading “shameless plug”

I wrote this and chose not to post it, as the nomination process I’d entered into was highly confidential, partly to protect the nominee, who might be hurt to know he/she did not get the prize. Well, George Frayne did not get the prize. But he’s gone now, leaving us late September before last. HisContinue reading “Dr. Frayne?”