Archive for the 'Minnesota' Category
Rediscovering Dumond
• March 17, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, Hopkins, Iowa, Minnesota, Writing
Tags: AIDS, diaries, Dumond Stories, earning power, handwriting, journals, Kafkian, power dressing, singles bars, Super 8, The Crowded Room
Broad Ripple
• September 9, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1986, 1987, 2010, Casco Point, Hopkins, Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota
Tags: Available Light Creative, Ayres, Basho, Broad Ripple, gasman, Greensburg, hair tonic, Indianapolis, John Rogers, Louisville, MCL, Methodist churches, Narrow Road to the Deep North, Republican, shoe polish, Town & Country Club, volunteer fireman, White River School
In the Slammer
• April 1, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1987, Hopkins, Minnesota, Writing
Tags: Arthur Hain, Bethel Methodist, Bloomington, Camp Shamineau, Cat Stevens, cell, Chicago, Chuck Berry, County Workhouse, Dickens, Dumond, DWI, Elton John, Genesis, Geoff Morrison, Hennepin County, Iowa City, jail, Kafka, KSJN, Le Grand Meaulnes, Mandarin Yen Sports Bar, Minnesota Twins, Rogers family, Stoned in Love, Surfside, The Kinks, The Moody Blues, The Trial, Todd Rundgren, Warren Zevon, Wayzata
Big Daddy
• March 18, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1995, Bullies, Depression, Florida, Minnesota
Tags: Bible, Big Daddy Pollitt, Brick, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Chardonnay, Grand Old Day, lies, mendacity, Richard Nixon, sedatives, silent majority, South Florida, suicide, Tennessee Williams, therapist, Trump campaign
Tomb of the Unknown Family
• February 19, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1985, Minnesota, Reading, Writing
Tags: astrophysicist, books, Crocus Hill, Family Project, Family Project elements, Linwood Avenue, Little Free Library, M. Scott Peck, MIT, Our Town, psychology, Saint Paul, Stanford, storytelling, The Road Less Traveled, University of Minnesota
Hanging by a Hair
• December 18, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1987, 1988, 1989, Hopkins, Indiana, Minnesota
Tags: beards, Brian, coconut butter, Colin, Colorado, crickets, Dad, England, five senses, Franco-Germanic, Frank Zappa, Indianapolis, Jacques Cousteau, long hair, Mom, National Geographic, onions, pickled herring, Pink Floyd, soap operas, spaghetti and meatballs, wedding
Full Mental Racket
• May 29, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1984, Minnesota, Minnetrista
Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey, All My Sons, Arthur Miller, Bob Bye, Brian Atene, Brooklyn Park, Carlos P., community theater, Full Metal Jacket, Gerry Smith, Gustav Hasford, Hue, Iowa City, Iowa House, Iowa Memorial Union, Khe Sanh, MacBride Hall, Matthew Modine, Middlebrook Hall, Monique, SOS Printing, St. Boni, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Kargel, The Short-Timers, The Twin Cities Reader, Tom LaCrosse, University of Iowa, Vietnam, Warner Brothers, Westonka Community Center
