I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together...

A big 80th birthday shout out to Carol Burnett. (Birthday week has been exhausting but it's been worth it with nearly 1,000 hits since Monday!)

Back in the days when people used to stay home and watch TV on  Saturday nights, The Carol Burnett Show was an enormous hit, but it didn't come on until 10 o'clock, which is pretty late when you're only six or seven. Actually, it's also pretty late when you're inching up toward fifty, but that's another story.

In order to stay up that late I had to be on my best behavior, and even then a fair amount of begging was involved. I almost never made it to Carol's final ear tug before conking out from exhaustion, but it was always fun to try.  

...Just To Have A Laugh or Sing A (Christmas) Song

August, 2008

It's about eight o'clock on a snowy New Year's Eve. I'm having dinner in a dimly lit French restaurant with my pal J-Ro. The meal is over and I step outside and leave J-R0 to deal with the check.

There is a brisk wind, but it is refreshing after the stuffy restaurant. In the tree lined square across from the restaurant, I find myself seated on a bench nibbling on a blueberry muffin.

J-Ro emerges from the eatery and we stroll the desolate, snowy streets until we come upon a used record shop. We wander in and casually look through stacks of old albums. We are on opposite sides of the shop when something catches my eye in the $2 bargain bin.

"Look, look what I found," I call excitedly to J-Ro as I wave my new found treasure high in the air, "It's a Carol Burnett Christmas album!"

I am overcome with a quiet joy and a feeling that this will be the best New Year ever.