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Friday, June 29, 2012

She May be Kind of Tone Deaf, but She Knows Her Poetry

A blogger attends a "Denny Diamond and the Family Jewels" concert at the Skokie Theatre, thank you very much.

You know you are getting old when you hear a few bars of a song from the 60’s and 70’s and can name that tune.  And that’s what happened to me at the “Denny and the Diamonds Family Jewels” concert on Saturday June 16, 2012 at the Skokie Theatre.  At approximately eighteen hundred o’clock, I learned that that I am not the teenager or even the twenty something year old I thought I was.  I am x number of years older.  And it isn’t the calcium supplements, the glasses or even the age spots that nailed that point home.  It was partially that after a few bars I could name that tune like a “Jeopardy” champion.  I am not faulting Denny or either diamond of a son for this cosmic revelation.   And I’m certainly not blaming the universe or my …

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