Saturday, August 9, 2003
Meeting Rachel
I looked up at the American Airlines flight arrival monitor and shook my head. “It’s changed from 8:30 to 8:45.” My dad sighed at the news. Normally a fifteen minute delay wouldn’t be a big deal, but he was anxious to see his niece and her husband. Unfortunately, their flight from Rome was late...
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Thursday, August 7, 2003
Nostalgia
You’ll have to excuse me, but I’m feeling a bit nostalgic. I’m not sure exactly what brought it on. Maybe it was receiving my season tickets for MSU football last Monday. I’ll admit, I have a tendency to turn into a big puddle of corny wistfulness when I think of my college days, and the arrival of...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2003
Meeting Paul Westerberg
(note: originally posted in "The Cheap Seats", 4/10/03) There are songs that make up my mental soundtrack as I think back over the last twenty years of my life. On August 3, 2002, I met the man who wrote most of them. Paul Westerberg played an outstanding show at a sweltering Majestic Theatre in...
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