these are days

I fully admit to being a child of the 70s...but i became a grownup (kind of) in the 80s, and i have alot of good memories from that decade – of working at sdsu as a graphic artist, and meeting my good friends sue and kirsten there, 'cause we all worked in the instructional media center, making student i.d.s, chatting and watching the clock (time went much slower, btw).

it was way back then that my music tastes started to change. i grew up mostly with country music, and guys like johnny cash and kenny rogers were really all i knew of. i was not one of the first ones to discover 10,000 maniacs, but later in the 80s i fell in love hard! not only with natalie merchant and her buddy michael stipe from rem, but with practically anybody from athens, georgia. for many many years, i fantasized about moving to athens and living the artsy bohemian lifestyle i thought i was meant to live.

these days, i still wonder about artsy bohemian lives, heck, maybe i even kind of have one. but now it's austin, texas where the real artists live, and lord knows WHO the new natalie is!

it doesn't matter, cause i am happily listening to her "campfire songs" this afternoon, and feeling young again!