Date: July 2011

Work-in-progress

It’s My Life: “Live” front-row seat


“Live” front-row seat…but no-one rides for free; a memoir of growing-up in America from General Dwight (“Ike”) Eisenhower, through the Kennedy years, the Ronald (“Dutch”) Reagan era, and on to the Bush father & son, Clintons try 2 make it 3,
And what have we here…the audacity… of ???


Meaning of the title, “Live” front-row seat.

For every person connected to the internet, the
very little is “live”. By “live”, I mean “in-person” witness to events. To have front-row seats that are also “live” is to have first-hand knowledge and experience of the event. “Live” has un-filtered exposure and can generate a unique take on both what happened and the consequences of what happened. While “live” front row seat indicates observer of events, it also denotes that
the observer is not a participant.


A list of my “Live” front-seat occasions:

‘49 Televised baseball
‘50s …My little Margie Lucky Strike Hit Parade…Little League
‘56 political conventions on tv
‘60 Discrimination E. Palo Alto Menlo Park Atherton
‘60s TV sock hop guest
‘64 Ray Charles, What I say… SF Cow-Palace
‘64-65 Haight Ashbury Counter Culture; S.F. State ...longshoreman’s hall….Janis; Jerry Garcia…
‘68 Anti-war…Gene McCarthy in Sheboygan…demonstrations
‘68 Warren Commission Report…college lecturer Sheboygan
‘70Anti-war protester
‘71 McGovern campaign
‘72 Hippie; activist; professor; husband/father
‘75 personal tragedy
‘76 DC carter elect;
‘77 Hostages, double digit
‘78 politics
‘80 Muhammad Ali
‘82 Ground Zero…the Boss
‘84 back to school…the old run around
‘88 love
‘90 drop out
‘94 and to him a son was born
‘98 and a daughter
‘01 putting down roots; making the nest
‘03 Parkinson’s diagnosed
‘04 housing prices…very good for us, not so good for most
‘06 energy prices; gas prices; war in the middle east; or as that sage of the ball-diamond, Yogi Berra, observed, it’s like “deja-vu all over again“.
Future what about the children?