Doug’s World

What’s Goin’ On

I’m wandering home across the USA this evening. First stop was in Memphis, where I had less than 30 minutes between flights but made the connection and still had time to listen to a great young singer at an airport bar. Here he is doing “What’s Goin’ On” by Marvin Gaye.

On the flight out of Memphis I talked to the lady next to me for a while, an elderly Jewish woman from Miami going to visit her daughter and grandkids in Winnipeg. She had this book by Bob Greene called “For Your Children’s Children” or something like that: it has a question at the top of each page like “What’s your favorite time of day?” or “Describe your first day at school,” and she had filled in dozens of pages with her tiny shaky handwriting, stories of things like crying the first day of school. It was a gift she’s going to give to her granddaughter Miranda.

Then here in Minneapolis I’m sitting at the bar, and the airport is deserted. The bartender explained to me the difference between Seattle and Minneapolis: “see, they’re about the same size, same cost of living, same quality of life, but Seattle’s summers suck because it rains so much and Minneapolis’s winters suck because it’s so cold. So it’s just a matter of when it sucks, that’s the difference.”

Man, a Kahlua and coffee is $10.35 here! Well, they’re doubles, but still … can I expense these?

See you soon, Megan, one more flight to go.

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