Hello again friends. So we recovered from the Gimli shows on the Friday, came home, and started to prep for the Wednesday show at McNally Robinson Grant Park. Came the night, Tony Buchner had worked out acoustic arrangements for the songs. The readings and songs we used were the original group from the Park show, but with ‘Hopelessly Lost in Love’ substituting for ‘Across the Norwood Bridge’, again because of the difficulty of doing justice to the latter with only one voice and two guitars. We had a version of ‘Across’ ready in case an encore was called for. Dream on boys indeed!

McNally staff had set up about forty chairs in the Travel Alcove, facing two microphones. After a sound check, we decided to go with amplified voice for both the readings and the songs, but un-amplified acoustic guitars. I was extremely pleased and relieved to see that all but few of the chairs were filled. And it was a special treat to see two ladies I had worked with twenty-five years ago. They had seen my picture in the paper. Thanks McNally for the advertising and for the otherwise exceptional work-up and treatment of Tony and me. ‘First class’ doesn’t begin to do justice to their support of this author and of the publisher. Speaking of which, more and more thanks to Ray and Carol who showed up cheerfully to see the show for the third time! Thanks Alan McKenzie for being there and not square. Also a shout-out to Cam Patterson. I’ll be there for you when the time comes.

The crowd were generous with their applause, and afterward were generous with their dough! So, mercy buckets. Drinks afterward, naturallement. No shows now until after my daughter’s wedding and a flop at the beach. I’ll blog if I get a few minutes and have anything to say. Anyway, see you in September.