About 9:30 on Friday evening, drummer/friend Jerry Howard and my other band-mates will start banging out the intro to “Do That Thing,” and I’ll jump in with the vocal to kick off another night of dance music at Philadelphia’s Mermaid Inn. It’ll be the most fun we’ve had in months. And it’s something I wouldn’t … Continue reading TURNING POINTS—From Rucks And Scrums To Ballads And Two-Steps
TURNING POINTS—Learning Perspective
Real education is transformative. For nontraditional college student Gina Barreca, it added to and changed her perspective. The curious and open-minded Brooklyn kid moved from one learning experience to another, and today she is a professor of English at University of Connecticut and a highly regarded author. Her writing can be very funny, and I … Continue reading TURNING POINTS—Learning Perspective
TURNING POINTS—Special Places
Some places stick out in your life. They might even serve as turning points. The main photo today is of Cottage 8 at Cill Rialiag village, an artist retreat on the southwest coast of Ireland, where I spent April of 2012 writing a first draft of Open Admissions that was as rough as the Kerry … Continue reading TURNING POINTS—Special Places
TURNING POINTS—Numbers and Knees
All summer, I’ve been counting. Eight, nine, ten minutes of letting this damn weight press down on the new knee. Eighteen, nineteen, twenty leg lifts. Twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty seconds holding this quad stretch. Here’s another view of how the knees look now. Odd, how the knee replacements resemble one of the balls that my feet … Continue reading TURNING POINTS—Numbers and Knees
Ned Bachus 