Norm van Maastricht | September 29, 2008
…a true story stranger than fiction… I’m sure you/ve heard of “dowsing” or “water witching” a method of finding water in rural areas using brass rods or forked sticks. The “dowser” holds his locator of choice and follows what seems to be an unnatural directional pull of their locator. People close to the land believe [...]
Norm van Maastricht | September 26, 2008
Chet Atkins (1924-2001) is arguably the finest guitarist this country ever produced. His years at RCA and Columbia resulted in a catalog of over eighty albums spanning country, jazz and classical. Taking the ‘thumb picked’ style of Merle Travis to tremendous heights, he was an inspiration to others and a mentor, as a producer, to [...]
Norm van Maastricht | September 18, 2008
I was never much of one for riding horses… Oh, of course I’d had my young cowboy fantasies and the daydream of being the only kid in school to ride his horse to classes but as time went on the closest I got to that was when my folks would take us to a riding [...]
Norm van Maastricht | September 1, 2008
The Mating Dance is a series of obvservations of human natrure in pursuits of (more or less) romantiic endeavor They are not in any particular order. That would imply rationality . She was an average looking girl, a little on the plump side but not obese…the kind of plump that, on a young woman, can seem sensuous to some [...]
