The Year That Changed My Life (Part 6)
• April 14, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1989, Great Britain, Travel, Writing
Tags: Abi, Addison Road, American Express, AYH Auction, Bill Lockyer, Boston, Chester Place, Compton, Covent Garden, East Croydon, Ellen Terry screenplay, Found Drowned, Gatwick, Green Park, Guinness, Hilary, Holland Park, Kensington High Street, Leicester Square, Lindsay, Little Holland House, London, Maple House, Mayfair, McEwan's Scotch Ale, Melbury Road, Michael Robbins, National Portrait Gallery, Oxford Street, Pimlico, Richard Jefferies, Seven Stars Pub, Simpkins, St. Barnabbas Church, Surrey, Tass, Tate Gallery, Tell Me My Heart, Theatre Museum, Tottenham Court Road, Toynbee Hall, Trafalgar Square, University of Guildford, Warren Street station, Waterloo station, Watts Gallery, Wood Green
The Year That Changed My Life (Part 5)
• April 1, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1989, Great Britain, Theater
Tags: Abi, American gigolo, Baker Street, Bath, Bill & Lindsay Lockyer, Bristol, Choosing, Clapham, Clore Gallery, Colin Vaines, Covent Garden, Dr. Brian Hinton, East Croydon, Ellen Terry, Enigma Productions, Hamish, Highbury & Islington station, Joy Melville, Julia Margaret Cameron, Julie, London, Long Acre, Marble Arch, Palace Gates Road, Queen's Gate Mews, Redhill Street, Regent's Park, Richard Jeffries, Sir David Puttnam, Speaker's Corner, Stanhope Street, Stella Artois, Tass, The Wandering Moon, Trafalgar Square, Vanessa Redgrave, Victoria & Albert Museum, Watts Gallery, Wood Green
The Year That Changed My Life (Part 4)
• March 24, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1989, Great Britain, Theater, Travel, Writing
Tags: Bath, Bearflat, Brighstone, Bristol, Bristol Theatre Department, Cambridge Lodge, Christopher Robinson, Cowes, Edward William Godwin, Ellen Terry, Endymion, Farringford, Ibsen, Isle of Wight, Jane Tapley, Keith Barker, London, Midsummer Night's Dream, New Orleans, Newport, Our Country's Good, Portland Square, Richard J. Hutchings, Sheridan House, tandoori, Tennyson, Tenterden, The Briary, the Old Vic, The Wandering Moon, Theatre Royal, Western Daily Press
The Year That Changed My Life (Part 3)
• March 4, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1989, Great Britain, Hopkins, Travel, Writing
Tags: Albion Hotel, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Bath, Bedford Road, Brian Hinton, Brighton, British Wallace Shawn, Buddy Holly, Cambridge Lodge, Cameron House, Dimbola, Disneyland, Ellen Terry, Farringford, filmmaking, Freshwater, G. F. Watts, Hastings, Isle of Wight, Julia Margaret Cameron, London, Moorlands Manor, Mrs. Wright, Portsmouth, R.J. Hutchings, Reade's, Ryde, screenplays, Southampton, Tennyson, Tenterden, The Briary, The Hard, Totland Bay, Virginia Woolf
The Year That Changed My Life (Part 1)
• February 10, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1989, 2006, Great Britain, Hopkins, Travel, Writing
Tags: Abi, Boston, Cliff's Notes, Dan Rogers, Ellen Terry, Gatwick, Harrods, Hollingsworth, Joy Melville, Ken, Knightsbridge, Ladbroke Terrace, London, Oxfordshire, screenplays, Sharon, Tenterden, The Crowded Room, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The Stock Pot
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
Completely in the Dark 