Tag: memoir

I was a teenage Beatle

One afternoon in January of 1964 I went to my best friend Bobby’s house after school. I heard a racket coming from upstairs, a sound unlike anything I’d ever heard.  “What’s that?” He shook his head, little sisters. “Abby. She’s been playing that song nonstop since yesterday,” Over at Bobby’s the next afternoon that song was still…


Satisfaction and Mad Men

Like many, I’m a big fan of AMC’s “Mad Men.”  I have long been disappointed by all the  books and movies that fail to capture the spirit of the 1960’s. It’s one of my motivations for writing, to try to do that myself. From the first episode Mad Men evoked in me chilling moments of remembrance  – not…


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