by I started this blog twenty years ago! I didn’t post a lot at first. It was mostly cat pictures back then (Finney and Buddy, that’s them on the far left and right of the banner), and about my books, of course. The paperback for The Restless Sleep was coming out, and I’d already started on my next book about the former Parapsychology Laboratory of Duke University.
I was still doing commentaries for NPR’s All Things Considered at the time. I haven’t done a commentary for them in I don’t know how many years, but publishers keep putting it in my bio. I understand why they do that. I once mentioned my embarrassment about it to my former producer and he was very understanding. They know why publishers do that, too.
I was also still drumming with Manhattan Samba! This is me at the Halloween Parade in 2005, with fellow drummers Ellen and Maddy. Maddy lives in Florida now, but Ellen still drums with Manhattan Samba and I just saw her and the band at the annual Dance Parade. In fact, I’ll include a picture of her now, with the band. Scroll down to see it. That’s her on the far right. Do something in your life that makes you as happy as Ellen is, drumming in the band.
