“In My Secret Life” – The Soundtrack Leonard Cohen & Sharon Robinson Wrote About Julie And Me I should clarify that, as far as I can determine, Leonard Cohen didn’t know, as he labored over “In My Secret Life” from its first draft in 19881 through numerous revisions until he completed it in collaboration with [...]
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And We’re Still Making Love In My Secret Life
- A Video For Julie
August 27th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Julie Showalter, Leonard Cohen
Two Charles Bukowski Poems On Losing Jane
May 6th, 2010 · Comments Off · Poetry
I’ve spent far too long in an attempt to explain why these Bukowski poems written about the anguish, anger, and sadness he suffered because of the death of his lover are the only possible content I can post today. The reason isn’t that complicated. I simply awoke this morning alone in a bed that I [...]
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Reading Letters From Julie
April 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Julie Showalter
I am taking a day or two off. While I have much I hope to accomplish, the first item on today’s agenda is perhaps the clearest indicator why I’m not attending to my usual tasks, such as generating a typically prolix, profound, and profane Heck Of A Guy post. My morning will be spent re-reading [...]
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How Valentine’s Day Is Done Around Here
February 14th, 2010 · Comments Off · HOAG Site
Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame, but I know, it’s my own damn fault. From “Margaritaville” by Jimmy Buffett Or Maybe It’s The Blog’s Fault While KD Lang Sings Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” At Opening Of 2010 Vancouver Olympics and Now Available – The Other Leonard Cohen Album (a two CD set of [...]
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And We’re Still Making Love In My Secret Life
December 3rd, 2009 · 7 Comments · Julie Showalter
At 7:00 on the morning of December 3, 1999, in the bed we shared, Julie Showalter, my beloved, fiercely smart, wickedly sexy wife, died from cancer diagnosed the week of our wedding nearly 20 years earlier. I miss her every day. In My Secret Life In the past, I have never planned in advance which [...]
Julie, 11th Century Chinese Poetry, And "Build Me Up, Buttercup"
September 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Julie Showalter, Poetry
Ten Years Living And Dead Have Drawn Apart About this time of year in 1999 Julie’s1 cancer, which no longer responded to any of the treatments available, exacerbated, beginning an irreversible deterioration that would end December 3, 1999 with her death. Because we managed her dialysis2 ourselves and because, in any case, there was nothing [...]
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Julie Liked Yellow Roses On Her Birthday
August 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Julie Showalter
On The Birthday Of Julie, My Much-Beloved, Fiercely Smart, Extraordinarily Sexy Wife Who Died 10 Years Ago One of the few reliable sources of solace I have found following the death of my wife, Julie,1 almost 10 years ago has been Donald Hall’s poetry dealing with the loss of his wife, poet Jane Kenyon. I [...]
Reading Julie's Letters On Our Anniversary
July 20th, 2009 · Comments Off · Julie Showalter
Julie1 & Allan Showalter – Married July 20, 1980 Over the past year, I’ve found myself re-reading the letters I received from Julie before she moved to Chicago to live with me 30+ years ago. Consequently, it’s not surprising that I’ve spent most of my time on the anniversary of our marriage going through those [...]
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"Todas As Ruas Do Amor" By Flor-de-lis – Tearing Up But In A Good Way
June 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Friends-Family, Music
Catching up on Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony, I came across Flor-de-Lis, a Portuguese folk music band, playing “Todas As Ruas Do Amor” in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest Semi-finals held in Moscow. Performing in a suspiciously psychedelic setting, the earnestly expressive vocalist, Daniela Varela is backed by Pedro Marques on percussion, Jose Camacho [...]
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Julie As Pen Pal
May 21st, 2009 · Comments Off · Julie Showalter
The time I set aside for blogging today dissipated into the multiple efforts required to prevent a family problem from evolving into a family catastrophe, the routine, mind-numbing chores necessary to feed and clothe those same family members, and a couple of hours spent reconstituting myself by re-reading the letters Julie1 sent me before our [...]
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