Tag: memoir
group name: psvsm
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June 01, 2008 05:41 PM EDT --
A couple of weeks ago I got an email invitation for a May 31st memorial tribute that was going to be held at the Boston University School of Fine Arts for Harold Tovish, a sculptor and former Professor . . . more
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June 15, 2008 10:36 PM EDT --
He called me at the office. It was late on Friday and I knew he held out till the last minute, hoping I'd call him instead. I didn't so he felt compelled. When you've engaged in a love affair . . . more
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June 01, 2008 01:58 PM EDT --
Last night Bill met Abbi and Teresa for the first time. We had an affable conversation. But talk soon slipped into the political arena. It included some talk about Libya, and the tense situation evolving . . . more
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January 15, 2008 08:04 AM EST --
It was a very cold, uncomfortable train ride from Vienna to Amsterdam. Not surprising I suppose for February, and an overnight ride through the mountains but all my other travel experiences in Europe led . . . more
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July 12, 2008 11:39 AM EDT --
I just spoke to my my friend, Lois Tarlow. Boston Globe art critic, Robert Taylor, wrote an excellent review of her retrospective at the Brockton Museum and I called to congratulate her. We had a long . . . more
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October 12, 2007 07:22 AM EDT --
Dinner is over, An entire day, gone. I'm standing still while everything - the rest of the world - rushes by. As I write this a group of kids, Flo, Robert, Zocki, Luzi and Yvonne are gathered around . . . more
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March 18, 2008 07:52 AM EST --
It's late. The party was wild, sort-of fun, I think, not sure. With RG sometimes it's hard to tell whether it was a sociological experiment, a performance, or a cruel joke. Perhaps it's the . . . more
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March 30, 2008 12:27 PM EST --
Today Ron, newly married Ron, stopped by to visit me at the office and suggested we get together next week when his wife Pamela is out of town. I had to laugh. It was fine when we would go out occasionally . . . more
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April 08, 2008 08:03 AM EDT --
More to write about Easter. RG arrived, hung over, about mid-morning. I had planned a traditional dinner and wanted to have asparagus with the ham. He was supposed to get some. On his way to the party . . . more
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April 29, 2008 07:47 AM EDT --
Clint Eastwood, newly elected Mayor of Carmel California (this was written in 1986), another gun toting, cowboy, actor, engaged in running our country. In my last conversation with Teresa we discussed . . . more
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October 19, 2007 08:54 AM EDT --
On my first trip to Vienna and Friedrichshof it had been a lot easier to call attention to myself. All the contacts I had been given in the art world and at the Blue Danube Radio had panned out. I had . . . more
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October 24, 2007 08:14 AM EDT --
I'm sitting at the small, round, wooden table in the guest breakfast room where RG and I used to eat and talk. I'm writing as I wait for lunch at noon. My daughter comes in to sit with me. Her . . . more
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October 31, 2007 07:44 AM EST --
After lunch I go down to the guest room to write. My daughter comes too. We are only there a few minutes when the restorer from Vienna (he's actually German but speaks perfect English with an Austrian . . . more
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July 15, 2008 07:33 AM EDT --
While waiting in the posh lobby of the office building at 99 Bedford Street in downtown Boston to be called in for my first round job interview with the head hunters for the Brockton Museum Directorship, . . . more
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August 03, 2008 05:50 PM EDT --
My friend Robin was expected for dinner. I got home from work and decided to go running to relax a bit before tackling cooking. I asked my daughter, if she wanted to come with me.
"No thanks, . . . more
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October 06, 2007 02:01 AM EDT --
As a child growing up in the 50s and 60s, I heard plenty of Bobby Darin music. Most of it I found schlocky or over the top (just being honest here but stick with me if you . . . more
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October 05, 2007 08:36 AM EDT --
Every day, so hectic, chaos has become the most commonly used word in all my journal writing. Work, my job alone, given nothing else, would be enough to keep two people busy working round the clock. . . . more
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October 08, 2007 07:47 AM EDT --
Six hours and twenty five minutes to Frankfurt, less than an hour between flights, then on to Vienna.
Sydney, Lotti, RG, my daughter and me were all squished into Sydney's tiny car, add the luggage . . . more
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April 14, 2008 07:05 PM EDT --
After a very short night I find myself sitting in my office waiting for RW (Mr. Money Bags) to pick me up. I promised him I'd take him to visit Robin's studio. RW does collect art, not as an intellectual . . . more
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October 10, 2007 08:33 AM EDT --
We're sitting in the office on Friedrichshof (FH), it's 5:45 pm. I'm trying to put a call through to RG to let him know we are OK, but there is some problem making the connection. We, Anna . . . more
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