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Bev's somewhat revised Odd Thoughts |
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Bev's somewhat revised Odd Thoughts |
My friend Steve Schalchlin read something I wrote on a forum
once and designed a web page for me.
I was touched that he'd think it good enough to work with.
My Daily Journal
I have been keeping this daily journal
since March, 2000 -- and it does get updated daily!
How to survive raising 5 kids
(my irreverent parenting diary)
(our boring travel tales)
(misadventures in entertaining)
The Requisite Links...
A
s part of that growing group of "older Americans" now surfing the Web, I've made a lot of good friends and visited some interesting spots along the way.
- I live in Davis, California, which just started a "wiki," a growing encyclopedia of everything Davis.
- I have worked for a few years as the volunteer publicist for singer-songwriter, Steve Schalchlin. His on-line diary tells the story of his battle with AIDS and of the development of his award-winning musical, The Last Session, which we saw several times in 2000---in Los Angeles in May, again during a wonderful weekend in Denver at the end of July, in Baltimore in August. In 2001, we've seen the show in Cincinnati and in San Francisco. He and his partner Jim Brochu are currently touring the country with their new show, The Big Voice, for which I helped write a song (which was later cut from the show).
- In the past 3 years, I have become very active in the on-line journaling community. I read several journals daily, but one of the consistently funniest belongs to Marn.
- Karen Malcor-Chapman raises Arabian horses. (Check out her television- watching horse, Beau.) She was the inspiration for the name of a planet (Malcor) on Star Trek, the Next Generation.
- Speaking of Star Trek, David Gerrold, that guy who wrote The Trouble with Tribbles, the sci fi epic, The War Against the Chtorr, and a bunch of other stuff, including the Hugo award winning novelette, The Martian Child is a friend of mine. He had the sad task of officiating at the graveside services for Paul.
- My former boss, Georgia Griffith is the Helen Keller of the millennium. We were with her when she was honored by the Smithsonian Institution in 1997 for her contributions to infomation technology for the handicapped. Georgia runs several forums on CompuServe.
- Our friend Stephen Peithman is the host of a weekly radio show called Musical Stages.
- My cousin Carolyn Tucker has done lots of genealogical research on the Kil/Kirkpatrick family and now wants to get into the business of helping other people research their own family trees.
- And for anyone who has ever sent out the Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe, the Save Public Broadcasting petition, the HIV needle stick warning or any one of a host of petitions or warnings, I urge you to stop and check the Urban Legends and Hoax page first before cluttering up the mailbox of all your friends.
I support the right of all Americans, gay or straight, to have marriage rights now!
Arthur
John
Tony
Larry
Harry
Read
Pasquale
Tom
Dan
Sebastian
Walter
Roy
JaymesMark
Walter
Dickie
Bill
Clifford
basykes@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us
Revised 12/16/04
