Working Girl

“Would you like to come work for me?”  Jill asked the question the day after Kyle’s “living room” show in her art studio. It had been a strange turn of events.  Kyle hosted all of these small, intimate shows in people’s homes, and I’d wanted to do one since we’d moved to CT; Kyle was [...]

An Evening Out

“I’m ready for a drink, are you?” Kyle Vincent asked me as we entered the restaurant together. I had known Kyle for nearly ten years now, and this was not the first meal we had shared together.  It would, however, be the first meal we’d ever had alone together. Kyle was in our area for [...]

Gambling in Atlantic City

“OK I have just a few minutes before I have to get back up on stage.  Let’s hear it,” said Rick Springfield, leaning back in the cushioned seat back. My friend Helen had brought me here to the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City to speak to Rick.   It had been the first time since [...]

Hey Jealousy

“What did you think?” I asked my photographer friend on the phone about our Rockford trip.  We’d been home two days and I was still basking in the glow of a job well done and a party well enjoyed. “You know, I think that the new people in Rick’s camp were all pretty impressed by [...]

Dramarama

It was late.  I was sitting at my computer desk in the kitchen, listening to the quiet of the house, wondering when I’d be done.   There were three days left before the Rick Springfield HDNet special in Illinois, and I had a million things to do. The pressure was on, and none of the [...]

Crazy or Stupid?

“What do you think?” I read on the computer screen.  My friend Helen, who I’d known via the Rick Springfield mailing list for over a year, had messaged me about the latest news in Rickworld. True to his word, Rick had defended my place on the team and protected my role as “fan liaison” with [...]

Seeing KV Again

I parked my car in front of my friend Erin’s little bungalow and sat there for a minute.  I looked up at the sweet little home she’d bought for herself last year, and saw the lights twinkling inside.  I had been on the road for an hour, since she lived south of me in the [...]

Pine Knob and Full Circle Moments

When I saw the date pop up on our weekly updates from Rick Springfield’s managers a few months back, a little shiver went up my spine.  ”DTE Energy Theater, Clarkston, MI.”   That was the new name for the ampitheater that had been known as Pine Knob when I was growing up.  It was the [...]

Houston, We Might Have a Problem

“Trouble in paradise?” asked my friend Kim, who had recently started to work with me on some new graphics for the two Rick Springfield fan websites.  We were chatting on the phone while I nursed Michael and Melinda played with toys on the floor of the family room.  The room was an absolute wreck with [...]

Sucked Back In

I was staring at my computer screen, finally back home and mostly recovered from my case of “childbed fever”. My baby was quietly slumbering next to me in his stroller; I had actually put him in it awake after I’d put his older sister down for her afternoon nap.  I had a million things to [...]