Robert Propst

“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out alive.”
                                                                           - Robert Heinlein

Today is Kendra's and my wedding anniversary.  In 1997 we stood on the side of a mountain in Washington State's Olympic National Park and said…

“Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.”
                                                         - John Bonham

Today was the birthday of John (Bonzo) Bonham (1948), legendary drummer of Led Zeppelin.  Rolling Stone magazine voted him “The Greatest Drummer of All Time."  I don't…

“My theory is that all Scottish food is based on a dare.”
                                                                  - Mike Myers

Doesn't it kind of make you crazy?  When you know a band or singer's music really well, but the average person only knows them by…

“I am not young enough to know everything”
                                               - Oscar Wilde

It's Friday and time for words that have moved us.  But first, a happy birthday to my longtime buddy, P.J. out in Colorado Springs.  P.J.'s one of the very…

“That's not easy to find in a corporate world, somebody who cares about music.”
                                                                                                       - Michael Penn

It's John Fogerty's birthday (1945).  I've already talked about him and the importance Creedence Clearwater Revival has had in my life. But, I…

“All you have to do to have an interesting life is to be a damn fool.”
                                                                                - Saul Bellow

I owe Zach Braff a lot.  For a few years back in the two thousand aughts, he turned me onto all…

"Lordy, I have loved some ladies, and I have loved Jim Beam
 And they both tried to kill me in 1973."
                                    - Hank Williams, Jr/Family Tradition

You could make a Mt. Rushmore of the music folks that share birthdays…

I love honest open smiles, kisses from a child
Tomatoes on a vine, and onions
I love winners when they cry, losers when they try
Music when it's good, and life
                           - Tom T. Hall/I Love

Today was the…

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
                                                                                                                            - Bob Dylan
                                                                                                    

Today is Bob Dylan's birthday.  He turns 85. What…

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
                                                                                                                 - Oscar Wilde

There are some songwriters who deftly use humor to help me deal with the challenges, vagaries and absurdities that life presents.  “Comedy…

“We've gotta get out of this place"
                             - The Animals

A cultural note:   It was 34 years ago tonight, May 22, 1992, that Johnny Carson broadcast his final episode of The Tonight Show.  After 30 years of perfection, the king…

“I'm nobody!  Who are you?"
               - Emily Dickenson
                     

I was talking with a friend recently about the experience that is the bed-and-breakfast.  I told him that Kendra and I had only stayed in one once but that was enough for…