Category Archives: My Life

Travel Journal – Part 1

August 8, 2006 – 2:37 pm

First Day – Tuesday August 8, 2006 I am taking a road trip to Minneapolis, driving my little Mini Cooper Convertible named Nigel. Yes, I named my car. I was going to fly, but Steve convinced me to take the time and drive, knowing how much I love driving. Good old Steve. What a glorious [...]

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Art, Movies and Disenchantment

July 21, 2006 – 1:28 pm

I had a conversation with a friend in high school, sometime back during the Lincoln administration, about art and society. She was a talented piano player and singer who was becoming disenchanted with art. She said that, with everything that was going on in the world, it seemed to her a life pursuing art was [...]

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And Then There’s Robert Altman

June 2, 2006 – 11:35 am

As you can probably tell, I love movies. I love them unapologeticly. I would often rather go to a movie than have a good meal or sit by a roaring fire with a brandy or watch the waves of a blue and green ocean spread toward me an a beautiful summer day. As I say, [...]

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Once Upon a Time in America and More

April 27, 2006 – 1:50 pm

The following is part of an email conversation I had recently with my father, poet Rowell Hoff, who now lives in China with his wife, Carol. Dad: We watched, on recommendation of a friend, “Once Upon a Time in America“, Sergio Leone’s long movie about — about what?? Me, I didn’t like it at all. [...]

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