Approaching the Frontier
• July 6, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1988, 1989, Dad, girlfriends, Hopkins, Indiana, Lake Minnetonka
Tags: Abi Bilkus, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ellen Terry, Fingerhut, Forest Gate, imagination, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lakewood Community College, Lindsay Clarke, London, mid-Victorian theater, proofreader, Ridgedale library, Roger Manvell, Sally, stargazing, storytelling, The Crowded Room, The Wandering Moon, Wood Green
The Face in a Jar by the Door
• May 15, 2015 • 4 CommentsPosted in 2015, Loneliness, Minnesota, Social isolation
Tags: Apple Valley, Canada, Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, Cracked, Crowleys, David Sutcliffe, depression, divorce, Dreams of a Life, elderly, Eleanor Rigby, Father McKenzie, France, Gail Rosenblum, gaming, Gilmore Girls, hypertension, Internet, John Cacioppo, Joyce Carol Vincent, London, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, myocardial infarction, National Night Out, Paris, Slate, social services, solitude, South Florida, The Beatles, Type 2 diabetes, University of Chicago, videos, Washington Post
Let’s Go to Great Britain! (Part 3: Southbound Again)
• January 23, 2015 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1982, Great Britain, Minnesota, Travel
Tags: Abi, Alloway, Andrea, Arthur, arts festival, Austin Allegro, Ayr, backseat car, Colin, Eaglesham, Edinburgh, Female Parts, Fort William, Glasgow, Glencoe, Jackie, John Dowie, Kings Cross-St. Pancras, Largs, Led Zeppelin, Loch Eck, London, MacDonald Hotel, Mains Avenue Rukenglen Park, McEwan's Scotch Ale, Mrs. Bilkus, Nardini's, party, Perthshire, Pitlochry, Plotinikoffs, Queen Street Station, River Tummel, Scottish highlands, Shirley, Stevie Wonder, tam o' shanter, tartan kilt, The Treasure Ship, Tron, Troon, Victoria Infirmary, Waterfoot Rd, Wildcat Theatre
Let’s Go to Great Britain! (Part 2: The Orgasmic Bores)
• January 16, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1982, Great Britain, Minnesota, Travel
Tags: Abi Bilkus, American submarines, As You Like It, Austin Allegro, B&Bs, Bloomsbury, Brighton, British Museum, Brixton, Buddha, Cambridge, Colin Bilkus, Covent Garden, Crawley, Dexys Midnight Runners, Dunoon, Eaglesham, Gary Bilkus, Glasgow, Greek Eros Restaurant, Highlands, Holy Trinity Church, I Eat Cannibals, Indian curry, Jackie, June Zatz, Lake District, Lindsay Clarke, Llangollen, Loch Eck, Loch Lomond, Lolita, London, Mains Avenue, Martini and lemonade, Mel Clarke, Mrs. Bilkus, My Dinner With Andre, Onan, Pink Floyd, Radio 1, Reigate, Rosalind, Rutherglen, satori, Scotland, Shakespeare, Stratford on Avon, Tate Gallery, The Wall, Thomas Dolby, Toni Basil, Toto Coelo, Trina, West Hampstead, Whistlefield Inn, Whistlefield Lodges, Windermere, Wrexham
Let’s Go to Great Britain! (Part 1: I Before We Except Overseas)
• January 9, 2015 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1982, Great Britain, Minnesota, Minnetrista, Writing
Tags: Abigail Bilkus, American Life, cassette tapes, Dumond, Gary Bilkus, Gatwick, Glasgow, Harvey Nichols, Henry Miller, Holland, Israel, Jack Kerouac, Judaism, kibbutz, Lansing, letterwriting, London, Manchester Guardian, Matthew J. Durand, Michigan, Northwest Orient, pub, Scotland, Tom Sawyer, United Methodist Church, Victoria Station, Victorian dust, West Hampstead
The War Before The Bores
• December 19, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1981, 1982, Depression, Lakewood, Minnetrista
Tags: Abigail Bilkus, Ernest Hemingway, Gauguin, Jack London, letterwriting, London, Malcolm Lowry, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mound, pen pals, prog-rock, Saturday Night Live, SOS Printing, van Gogh, William Faulkner
Letters Never Sent (Part 2)
• July 30, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in 1974, 1976, 1977, Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, Writing
Tags: adulthood, Camp Kingswood, colleges, high school, jobs, leaving home, letterwriting, London, questioning, questions, screenplay, smoking pot, summer camp
