Zelda would have turned 107 on September 11th or 12th (people of her generation often didn’t know their “real” birthdays).  She died a few months short of her 105th birthday.  This was taken when she was a young 99, on one of her daily 3-mile walks. Halfway through, she asked solicitously, “Do you need to […]

As I was posting this, I remembered “Hello in There,” a Bette Midler song I played over and over in the early 70s.  As it turns out, the lyrics were written by John Prine when he was only 25:  “…So if you’re walking down the street sometime, and spot some hollow ancient eyes, please don’t just pass ’em by […]