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On this date—1969

Posted on November 7, 2019November 7, 2019 by Clay

Fifty years ago today, Frank Sinatra stepped into Studio 1 at Western Recorders in Hollywood.  The building isn’t called that anymore—it’s still a…

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The dream about the apple pancake

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Clay

I awoke this morning from a dream in which I was having a meal in the Walnut Room at Marshall Field’s State Street…

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Rodgers & Hart & Sinatra

Posted on April 23, 2019April 23, 2019 by Clay

In recent years, friends have tagged me on Facebook asking for lists of favorite records and favorite books. I sighed a little when…

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Yes, I vacationed in Paris

Posted on April 16, 2019 by Clay

Already the snideness has begun. “We get it. You vacationed in Paris.” “Suddenly everybody is French.” Some among us have taken to social media…

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My dinosaur

Posted on August 3, 2018August 3, 2018 by Clay

Earlier today, I found myself prostrate with guilt when I realized that, as a child, I had chosen a favorite dinosaur not because…

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Mama the Cook

Posted on August 1, 2018April 23, 2019 by Clay

Mama was not a very good cook. She was an inspirational schoolteacher, the kind to whom people sent tear-wrinkled letters of gratitude, years after they left her classroom. She pulled…

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Geographic voices

Posted on July 15, 2018July 17, 2018 by Clay

I would be hard pressed to say which narrator of National Geographic television specials was the best. It is therefore fortunate that no…

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My trip to Sydney

Posted on July 7, 2018July 7, 2018 by Clay

The folks at the International Quality & Productivity Center had a hard time in 2007 finding someone to deliver the International Keynote Address…

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My dampness

Posted on June 22, 2018June 23, 2018 by Clay

I was born and spent my early years in Houston, and I lived there again in several stretches as an adult, so I…

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10 records

Posted on June 15, 2018April 16, 2019 by Clay

Not long ago, a friend tagged me on Facebook to participate in a “10 records in 10 days” exercise in which you describe…

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