The Fort In the late 70’s, my friends and I thought it would be really cool if we built ourselves a fort in the upper rafters of our garage. My family had moved into a newly constructed neighborhood in 1975, and houses were continuously being built for the next eight years. This left us with […]
Key Largo
I heard a song on the radio the other day, and it brought me right back to the summer of 1982. Also known as the summer of what might have been. These were the final three months before I started high school. With the benefit of hindsight, I can look back now and view this […]
Waiting in Vain
My very first CD was Legend by Bob Marley & the Wailers. It was the summer of 1985 and I didn’t even own a CD player. In fact, no one I knew had one. But my friend, Tom, got this CD from his mom and wasn’t interested. So I bought it from him for five […]
Blinded by the Light
I had just turned 10 years old during the winter of ‘76/’77, but I was already keeping up on the latest music with the devotion of a teenager. On the radio I was exposed to everything from light pop like ABBA, to more classic stuff like Led Zeppelin. But the disco era was also just […]