Author: Freakmaster

End of the Road

Standing at the End of the Road

This is a story I’ve not resisted in telling so much as having found myself…

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Crazy Horse

Visiting Ancestrial America

In the summer of 1973, preceding my senior year in college, I arranged a special…

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Princess Mugshot

Mea Culpa Poodle

It’s probably unnecessary to publish a formal correction to an earlier essay since that’s really…

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Rec Room Jam

Rec Room Rectory

And that title pretty much sums it up because throughout my youth the rec room…

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Pepe

10 More Musical Bookmarks

It was so much fun the first time that I’ve unleashed 10 more of my…

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Lunch at Linebaugh’s

The late, great, John Hartford (bluegrass/songwriter) was an early musical inspiration of mine and in…

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The ‘Toby’ Home Defense Kit

When I was 8 years old, an elderly friend of my mother’s, Mrs. Smith, passed…

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10 Musical Bookmarks

Music denotes points of interest along the road of life, bookmarks if you will. We’ve…

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Dragging the tree

Alone Again, Naturally?

Because there was no father on hand and because my mother tried to have a…

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Rudolph at the bar

Set ‘Em Up, Joe: The True Story of Rudolph

There’s been plenty of speculation over the decades as to the source of Rudolph the…

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