Bob Everhart Lives for Old-Time Country Music
I visited Bob’s Traditional Country Music Festival in 2015 and was amazed that his flagship event was still going. My friend Maria (also from Ascholding) faithfully played the zither there at several workshops as 30 years before. Bob apparently had not changed much; but he was close to 80 years old now
Arnold Annen–An Extremist in Ceramics: Illuminations
Our friend Arnold Annen from Basel, Switzerland, creates poetry in porcelain. His large bowls and luminescent sculptures are paper thin. His partner Violette Fassbaender, herself an accomplished ceramicist, helps Arnold push the edge of a fragile art.
Standing Rock: Clean Water for All of Us
“Water Is Life” No debate about that. Thousands of people from all over the world gathered last fall 2016 at Standing Rock Reservation for a camp out. The Dakota tribe protested the pipeline because the DAPL violated tribal autonomy,
Jack Earley–Stories for Every Day and Saturday Nights
Jack’s “earliest” passion was writing. “I have been writing since I was 18,” Jack said. He got interested in literature around the time when he started college. “Everybody was talking about the weird guy next door, so I went over to meet him.”
That guy got Jack to read all the great novels
How to Get Cast in a Movie
Yeah, this is how you get cast in a movie, my movie. Now the plaster is off.
Mark Twain, a Master of Human Nature
Mark Twain’s excursions into the German language are hilarious. How can the prefix from a verb break off and resurface at the very far tail end of a sentence?
Give Up Facebook for Lent
Soon you will realize that a Facebook fast makes you free. Free from the burden of needless worry. Free from anxiety about so many scary health problems distant relatives of your friends are struggling with. Free from being hacked into, or being mobbed by obtrusive advertising, or from being overwhelmed by the constant flow of forgettable news and movie clips.
Tonspuren–Gedichte von Gisela Baudy
Gisela Baudys Tonspuren Zyklus ist nicht zum schnell Leben oder schnell Lesen gedacht. Auch wenn man eine Betrachtung zum fünften Mal zu sich nimmt, entdeckt man wieder neue Facetten.
Timbisha–A Marble-ous Poem
Timbisha, a poem by Beverly Rubik. This was written on a New Year's trip to Death Valley, California.
Happy New Year! Or maybe happy Oscars!
Counting down the Pine Cone in Flagstaff Music by Waco Brothers, live at Monty Hall, Harm's Way. Yes, I am submitting my docu-shorts as a new category to the movie academy in Hollywood. If I don't win, then Molly would for sure. Molly, aka Susie, does the Rubics cube...