Sometimes You Hurt the One You Love – Or You Just Make Them a Bit Snippy

Sometimes, worry can totally consumes the Crow.  She doesn't get out of the house much these days, and with all the rain she can't even sit on her deck and soak up some sun.  That just amplifies her stress levels.  Today she was worried about a change in my Dad's meds.  I had all the info, but …

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Taking Pre-Orders for A Girl From the Hill, Starting … NOW!

Happy Monday! And felice lunedi for all of my Italian and Italian American friends - I am pleased and just a little bit proud to say that A Girl From the Hill is ready for Pre-Order!! Yes I know I sound like a cheesy ad for laundry detergent.  But the writing/self publishing process has left me with little pride, …

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Oh I love the Monkees. I was about 3 when this first aired. They are much older now, and Davy is gone. But I still love them, and they bring me to a place where at least for me, happiness and peace were abundant. Thank you Redtree Times. Enjoy!

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Monkees' Christmas 1967I was flipping around the channels last night, the final Christmas specials winding down as the holiday came to an end.  I ended up on an old Christmas episode of The Monkees from around 1967.  It was a show that I had loved as a kid of 8 or 9 and it had Butch Patrick, the kid who played Eddie Munster on the also adored The Munsters TV show, as a guest.  How bad could it be?

God awful. That’s how bad.

Luckily, I came in near the end but was amazed at how utterly terrible it had been  put together, almost to the point of being unwatchable.   The writing was bad and  the schtick, worse.  I began to wonder if all of those other things I loved as kid had aged so poorly.

But just as I was about to flip to anything else, the band came…

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