Living at Homewoods on the Willamette

 This is a comic short film about my younger brother that I created from 15 years of home movies.  In the summer of 1966, staying in my parents Medford home while they were back east, I decided to keep busy by organizing Dad's home movies. That's when I discovered that my brother was a born ham. When he saw a camera, he ran toward it or otherwise became the focus of the shot. Stringing clips together for family entertainment was a no-brainer. (10 minutes) https://youtu.be/ahXfhUSLNvI?sHerei=d_f7YckFInwVxiLu Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

 Another Typecast artificial intelligence project, creating an audio play from the textual script.  The first short scene of a longer work, about a history professor who drops out to spend the remainder of her life emulating the musicians on the Titanic. Looked like it was going to open in Santa Fe until covid hit. Gathering dust ever since. Now it's getting new life. (6 minutes) https://youtu.be/tX8JPP3Le0M?si=uQq86HDbrx8o17vM Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

Produced from a playscript with Typecast Artificial Intelligence (using characters Ron, Jack, Emma). Website at typecast.ai Snoops (8 minutes) https://youtu.be/xyNRt6f95DM?si=xCBBdJFguXX9J5CE Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

   Can you guess this is a ukulele? I am playing it in the style of a 5-string banjo. Unfortunately my arthritic hands disrupt playing today. But I still wear my Ukulele Underground ballcap! https://youtu.be/zqTqtXSqvso?si=vo47ouxSKuudU5V3 Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com ,

   Man, talk about sending a chill down your spine! https://youtu.be/2xmRWj7gJEU?si=ZFn_JxwQpwGabjzyf Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

  A dating service for seniors. Opening by Andy Rooney is priceless. In the early days, YouTube only accepted small files, so a short film like this had to be submitted in parts. Part one ... https://youtu.be/_FESX4k6L4E?si=q4YhdGgSm1OKmk0k Part two ... https://youtu.be/GQaGGnKM5Eo?si=YPwK8ujIW8FZoyew Part three ... https://youtu.be/r_1Q3nl7UXE?si=4a7X4bATOKrcsVvI Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

 The publication of this short story as the cover story in the Oregonian's Sunday supplement happened during "my high 1980s" as a Portland writer. Not only was the story featured, with cool cover art, but the same issue contained a rave review of Cocktail Suite, the first hyperdrama I had produced myself. My previous two hyperdramas had been commissioned, and I was eager to have more control over the outcome. The story itself was the result of spending lots of time in Joseph near Wallowa Lake. Quite miraculously, the public television version of my play Christmas at the Juniper Tavern had brought me many fans in Wallowa county, including an anonymous patron who let me use his lakeside cabin rent free for a month every Spring. Joseph almost became a second home. After listening for many weeks to local storytelling (most often in taverns), I told a local story of my own. https://youtu.be/1uk_OZqMTmg Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

 How I arrived in Southern California in 1948 as a kid with a southern accent and left for Oregon in 1966 as a young man with no accent at all. https://youtu.be/-w6AVwg6l8I?si=rnAVfH5HwZh6FBpH Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

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  Nature Wins Before living in the Homewoods retirement community, Harriet and I lived in another, Vineyard Place, which is not far from here. We didn't like it much but fell in love with the area. We stayed at Vineyard less than a year  and moved into an apartment. While I was there, I formed a dramatic reading group. Only one woman had any drama experience. It didn't matter if we weren't very good. The point was to keep busy. We did two projects while I was there. This is the first one, called Nature Wins. Part one ... https://youtu.be/SqzNdXWAelk?si=9nXMU_rYyPK2jex4 Part two ... https://youtu.be/VHQ_a84xneY?si=FNxZ7LH7SKb6LhoE Part three ... https://youtu.be/jn-Ad0P0MNY?si=O-mtwjdH6WSmjArP Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

 What I called my "signature scrapple recipe" was posted on my Writing Life II blog on October 25, 2012, the day before my birthday. This is not a recipe for authentic scrapple but for "a poor man's clone" that I developed from a love of scrapple and frustration at its rare availability on the west coast. Moreover, this recipe is neither difficult nor time consuming. Making authentic scrapple is both, as I learned in graduate school. I had a friend who lived in the country outside of Eugene and raised chickens and a few pigs. He had taken to heart my frequent laments that the west coast had yet to embrace scrapple as a staple, or even as a luxury item for that matter. Before Oregon, I had lived in New Jersey, Virginia and Texas, where stores often carried several brands of scrapple, it was so commonplace. In the west, at best, you might find it frozen or fresh in the deli of an enlightened cook. One day, I told my friend, I must learn to make my own scrapple. So...

  Ain't it the truth? https://youtu.be/avuzBaY4CJg?si=nkwi4M1vndRF8Ip2 Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

    Folks keep living longer, and companies that cater to independent and assisted living seniors grow in kind. When we considered independent living in retirement after Harriet's heart attack, I was overwhelmed by how many facilities there were in the Portland area. We ended up touring 38 places (free lunch!) before making a choice. All of these places have a similar message in a style that ranges from enthusiastic to exaggeration to hype. At the Vineyard Place website you can read, " We are completely dedicated to making sure you or your loved one have fun, exciting days and nights full of life!" Your golden years await you! You find pop culture embracing the same rosy view, especially in music. Here's Kenny Rogers singing about how wonderful it is to grow old together: https://youtu.be/8LXKm1CJ998?si=dnhUBrTjYTw6jTCD But there are dissenters. Harvard math professor Tom Lehrer, whom I consider the best satirist since Jonathan Swift, brings his dark and politically i...

Who was Dorothy Parker? Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Parker Quotes: https://youtu.be/FPwQnVQ-B-4?si=eleB2uI-aHCnEe7q A Dorothy Parker documentary https://youtu.be/pWcFCFZFB50?si=T3MsO3nwWXac-RmG Enough Rope (verse), audiobook https://youtu.be/AkgkuwM55qI?si=jdj4pMmkYIWND2_X Movie, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle https://youtu.be/NNFbG9eOfcg?si=aglO-WGPxIf3y2y5 You might as well live by Charles Deemer, readers theater www.ibiblio.org/cdeemer/Parker.htm Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com