Most people get into music at 14 or so. My wife just turned 50. Music of 1975 to 1980 is her thing.

When I was 13 I worked all summer picking (stawberries, raspberries, currents, apples, pears..). Rode my bike to the farmer's market, 5 miles at 4 a.m. got in the back of a pick up truck, went to the farm, back to the market for 6 p.m. Two bucks some days. Just let the bike lean against the wall, no lock. Used much of the cash to buy a transistor radio that I hung from the handle bars in a nifty leather case. It cost about $100 bucks, and when you made 2 bucks a day that was expensive.

Blue on Blue, Surfin USA, but I'm more than a decade older than the 50 year old wife. She holds my arm while I walk, but won't wear that nurses uniform and play doctor. Now she's off to work and I need to plan the trip to the can with the cane...

I still remember riding home listening to tunes at the end of a sweaty day.

John Conley
Musica est vita