On Saturday morning February 5, 2022, Tom’s alarm went off at 5:20am and his groggy wife didn’t hesitate to question the earliness of the wake-up call. Vicki seemed to accept Tom’s rationale once my photographer told her we needed to…
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181: SCHLEMIEL, SCHLIMAZEL, HASENPFEFFER INCORPORATED!
Legendary rock star Alice Cooper once said of Milwaukee: “It’s pronounced “mill-e-wah-que” which is Algonquin for ‘the good land.’” For the three of us, there wasn’t a better day to head for “The Good Land” than on Friday February 4,…
178: THE DAY THE MUSIC WAS RESURRECTED
When Tom’s alarm went off at 6:00am on Thursday February 3, 2002, the room was infused with the sound of ‘I Got You Babe’ by Sonny and Cher. I knew we hadn’t left Woodstock, Illinois yet, but I wondered to…
84: COME ON, LET’S GO TO RITCHIE’S PACOIMA
My photographer and his wife woke to the alarm clock at 7:00am on Friday August 3, 2018 and as they got themselves ready for the day, I kept thinking to myself: “Come on, let’s go”. Tom had planned a very…
40: THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED
We had spent over three days in Dyersville and on the morning of Friday July 24, 2015 it was time to head west. My photographer had planned on making one last trip out to the Field of Dreams before we…