Retirements, Layoffs, Sabbaticals & Skid Row
• September 25, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1993, 2012, 2019, Dad, Florida, Mound, St. Paul
Tags: Ben Simon, Bethel Methodist, Brian, Brian's layoff, Cable Access St. Paul, Cathedral Hill, Central Parking, Dad's retirement, Docksides, Duluth, Dunn Brothers, farmhouse fire, financial security, Forest Lake Inn, Four Eyes Design, Grand Rapids, Hopkins, journal writing, Lake Calhoun, Lakewood Community College, nightmare mansion, Pat Ciernia, retirement party, sabbaticals, Skid Row, Summit Avenue, Texas, The Wandering Moon, Theron Hollingsworth, University of Minnesota, Uptown Minneapolis
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 2)
• February 23, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1989, Great Britain, Hopkins, Travel
Tags: Ashford, Beatrice, Bill, Dick, Edward Godwin, Eight Bells, Ellen Terry, Forbes-Robertson, Freshwater, Gloria, Hamlet, Henry Irving, Isle of Wight, Kent, King John, Lindsay, Macbeth, Margaret Weare, Nigel, Ophelia, Portia, Portsmouth, pub grub, Ryde, Smallhythe, Steve, Tenterden, The Hard, The Wandering Moon, Wool Pack, Working Man's Club, WWII POW, Wynn, Yanks
Wedding Bell Blues
• September 28, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1989, 2017, Family, Hopkins, Lake Minnetonka
Tags: Aunt Joyce, creativity, culture war, Disney World, divorce, Ellen Terry, Excelsior Commons, loss, marriage, Metro State University, relationships, St. Therese Catholic Church, Stacey, The Wandering Moon, Valentines, Vicious Frieze, weddings
Worlds In Turmoil
• September 1, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in 1986, 1988, 1989, Hopkins
Tags: ABC News, Al Stewart, alcohol, artists, Beijing, Broadcast Journalism, creativity, drugs, English and American Literature, Fingerhut Corporation, history, Khomeini, Media Studies, Metropolitan State University, Poland, Soviet Union, stories, Story Sponge, The Wandering Moon
The Boxes
• August 25, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in 1987, 1988, 1989, 2017, Hopkins
Tags: Britain, Charles Dickens, conversation, creativity, Facebook, Forest Lake, grief, Instagram, Little Dorrit, small talk, Snapchat, solitude, The Muse, The Wandering Moon, Theron Hollingsworth, Twitter, WLKX
Working on a Miss Terry (Part 2)
• July 20, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1988, 1989, Great Britain, Music, Theater, Writing
Tags: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Arthur Lewis, Arthur Sullivan, Berlin Wall, Clapham, Colin Vaines, Coventry, Cox and Box, David Puttnam, Dimbola, Edith Craig, Edward William Godwin, Ellen Terry, Engima Productions, Farringford, Felix Mendelssohn, Found Drowned, Freshwater Bay, G. F. Watts, George du Maurier, Isle of Wight, James Knowles, Joy Melville, Kate Terry, Mark Lemon, Metaphysical Society, Offenbach, Punch magazine, Reverend Charles Pritchard, screenwriting, Shakespeare, Smallhythe Kent, The Wandering Moon, Tom Taylor, Victorian theater, Victoriana, William Boyce
Working on a Miss Terry (Part 1)
• July 14, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1988, 1989, Great Britain, Theater, Writing
Tags: Alfred Lord Tennyson, carte-de-visite, Charles Kean, Clapham, Coventry, Dylan Thomas, Edward William Godwin, Ellen Terry, Found Drowned, Freshwater Bay, G. F. Watts, Henry Irving, Henry Princep, Isle of Wight, James Knowles, Julia Margaret Cameron, Kate Terry, Long Acre, Lyceum Theatre, Metaphysical Society, Queen’s Theatre, Reverend Charles Pritchard, Richard Burbage, Sarah Princep, Sarah Siddons, screenwriting, Shakespeare, The Wandering Moon, The Winter’s Tale, Tom Taylor, Victorian theater, Victoriana, William Macready
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
