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In early October 2020, my uncle died.
A week later, my mother died.
A week later, my wife had a transient ischemic attack (TIA).
A few weeks later, my wife had her second TIA.
A few months later, a friend ten years my junior died.
A week later, my father died.
A few weeks later, my wife had her third TIA.
For some time after, I did not get a lot done . . .
Mystically liberal Virgo enjoys long walks alone in the city at night in the rain with an umbrella and a flask of 10-year-old Laphroaig.
I strive to live by these maxims: “I always tell the truth—that way I don’t have to remember what I said” and “It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble—it’s what you know that just ain’t so.”
I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a college dropout (twice). Occupationally, I have been a bartender, jewelry engraver, landscape artist, and FEMA crew chief following the Great Flood of ’72 (and that was a job that I should never have left).
I am the author of the final record collector’s price guides for O’Sullivan Woodside (1985-1986) and the original author of the Goldmine price guides for record collectors (1986-1996). As such, I was often referred to as the “Price Guide Guru.”
And, as everyone should know, it behooves one to heed the words of a guru ...
