The Final Chapter for Jack

I went to California a few weeks ago. Prior to my leaving I called my dear friend Jack Turnipseed and told him I would be going. Jack was upbeat and ornery as always and we traded a few giggles about his lack of sex and his wanton desire for it. I verbally hugged him [...]

Julie & Kate

My Youngest daughter, Julie, has had a thing for Katharine Hepburn since she was about 8yrs old. Julie even had a “Shrine” of photos of Katharine in her room. (Other kids had New Kids On the Block!) She had Kate’s lines from many movies memorized and had her laugh down to a science! She emulated [...]

On Behalf of the Dying

My friend is dying. A friend I’ve never met in life except through phone calls and a few videos we send back and forth. Oil_Can_Harry is his name on SingSnap…a site devoted to people who love to sing…but his real name is Jack. I just realized I don’t even know his last name. Sad really. [...]

Oh God, People Actually Read THIS?

Look for me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/Sweetnote…I’m usually wearing a Cowgirl hat! HUGS and SMOOCHES….I wouldn’t have it any other way!

Not Forgotten

I walked through tall amber and green grasses to find you
You lying peacefully beneath the brown earth and blue sky
Awaiting someone who has not come for so long
Because the pain of being without you was too much to bear

Pausing to remove a weed or two from where your feet lie
Rearranging the faded blooms of silk [...]

Four Minutes Apart and Counting

Sometimes things happen in your life for a reason. You may not know just what the reason is, however, there’s always this small voice that tries to reassure you that everything will be alright. Some may call it wishful thinking; I chose to call it a voice from God.

There are some major happenings at our [...]

Jennie Pearl-Part 3

“Maybe In Another Year””
And maybe in another year.
You’ll come back to cheer me.
And when, I mean and if you do, I will give my love to you.
And on that day we’ll laugh, and cry, and we will close our eyes
To the hate of the world and the evil that looks our way
And in the end [...]

Jennie Pearl-Part 2

Still feeling the excitement, shock and utter admiration for Jennie, I decided to look Jennie up online to just see what others were saying about her and to see if there was some sort of link to her song. I was overwhelmed by the number of sites that referenced Jennie and her song “Maybe In [...]

Jennie Pearl-Peoria’s Lost Sweetheart

Salon.com – March 14th 2006
Numero Group’s latest, “Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies From the Canyon,” compiles one track each from 14 of the probably thousands of obscure she-folkies who sprouted up in the early ’70s, trailing in the wake of the grand pooh-bah of she-folkies herself, Joni Mitchell. If it seems odd to bother compiling the work of transparently derivative artists, it’s worth considering that if a scholar were to sift through the compositions of the legions of stylistically similar but patently inferior composers who labored under the shadow of, say, Mozart, he or she would certainly turn up a large number of gems — for even middling artists often have one concentrated burst of inspiration in them, the products of which would be lost forever in a sea of mediocrity were it not for intrepid curators like the Numero Group, who have rescued some pretty astonishing specimens and presented them on this wonderful release. My favorite is the haunting, heartbroken “Maybe in Another Year,” which has a piano introduction that sounds like the work of a child trying to copy Mitchell’s flowing piano style — which, indeed, it is, this being one of two songs ever recorded by 15-year-old Jennie Pearl.

Living in the Midwest

Today’s the day I’ve chosen to talk about my views of the Midwest. I personally live 200 miles South of Chicago right off the main interstate for Illinois, Interstate 74. You could look for me on Google Earth and even track my street to the small cul de sac that is part woods, part city [...]