I received this book from my son Kristopher for Christmas way back in 2004. The book is a lot like Bob Dylan … different and genius. We start in 1961. We witness some history in him signing his first record contract. It is an odd memoir that is as inspired, impulsive, and to a degree as [...]
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Book Review: Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan
Posted in Book Review, Humanities, Liberal Arts, Music, Poetry, Reading, tagged Bob Dylan, Classic Rock, Folk Rock, History, Personal Experiences, Popular Culture, Writing Life on March 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
2011 in review
Posted in Book Review, English, History, Humanities, Liberal Arts, Military History, Music, Poetry, Poetry Site of the Week, Reading, Religion, United States History, Writing, tagged Jimmie A. Kepler, Personal Experiences, Writer's Life, Writing, Writing Life on January 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,900 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 7 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]
Writer’s Life: The Value of a Liberal Arts Education
Posted in English, History, Humanities, Liberal Arts, Military History, Music, Poetry, Religion, tagged Aging, Memoir, Personal Experiences, Popular Culture, Writer's Life, Writing, Writing Life on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Albert Einstein said, “The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.” My undergraduate education is a liberal arts education. My major was history and my minors were English and military science. [...]
Book Review: I, Me, Mine by George Harrison
Posted in English, Humanities, Liberal Arts, Music, tagged 1960s, 1970s, Biography, Book Review, Classic Rock, George Harrison, Memoir, Music, Popular Culture, Rock and Roll, The Beatles on September 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“I, Me, Mine” by George Harrison was an extremely challenging read. The book was at times boring, has poor structure, and lacked direction. You can feel George Harrison’s dry wit and humor in the pages of the book with the key word being dry. Don’t expect to learn a lot about Harrison. The book lacks [...]
Book Review: Papa John by John Phillips
Posted in English, Humanities, Liberal Arts, Music, tagged 1960s, 1970s, Biography, Book Review, Classic Rock, Folk Music, Folk Rock, Hippies, John Phillips, Mamas and Papas, Memoir, Music, Popular Culture, Reminiscing, Rock and Roll on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Return with me to those glorious days of the 1960′s when we transitioned from folk music to folk rock. You will enjoy this book if you like a brutally honest account of the seedy side of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. John Phillips was driven, hugely talented, lucky, and a beast in terms of [...]
Book Review: Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon – And the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller
Posted in Book Review, English, Humanities, Liberal Arts, Music, tagged 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Biography, Book Review, Carly Simon, Carole King, Folk Rock, Gerry Goffin, Joni Mitchell, Memoir, Music, Popular Culture, Rock and Roll on August 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The contents of “Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon–And the Journey of a Generation” by Sheila Weller will be very recognizable to us who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s. Sheila Weller tells us that King, Simon, and Mitchell pushes back the barriers for women specifically, “one song at a [...]
