How We Became Country Hippies
It seemed like a good idea at the time. Is that enough? Judy was pregnant. I was burned out or maybe just bored. Hillary’s Mariposa house was falling into ruin. […]
Category Archives: Life
What a Long Strange Trip
In 1976 or so, Jackson Browne wrote about traveling in a tour charter, saying: We’ve got country and western on the bus, R & B We got disco in eight […]
Roger’s Gone
Roger Nelson was my best friend, in school, when I needed a friend the most. His folks were founders and stalwarts of the Winnetka Bible Church which my dad was […]
Chicago, August, 1968
(My daughter, who was not quite four years old at the time, asked me recently to talk about the 1968 Chicago convention for her children who are living thru this […]
The First Years
At it’s best, it looked like this with me as Ralphie. I wanted the BB gun too, but also my school, the coal furnace, the front yard, clothes… my childhood […]
The CIA and Me
When my daughter Lauren was born we lived in Philadelphia and nine of our best friends were secretly working for the CIA. It was different then, in the early 60s: things […]
Celebrate Heros
My daughter Lauren was about six months old in March 1965 and we lived in Philadelphia. There were a lot of awful things happening then — kind of a storm […]
