Notebook
March 26th, 2021 by Gary Osberg

I had my seventh birthday in Germany on the way to Vienna, Austria. I was an Army brat and we lived on the second floor of an apartment building at 41 Gregor Mendel Strassa. When I was nine years old I was the leader of a small street gang of other Army brats and some […]

March 19th, 2021 by Gary Osberg

Today is my “fully vaccinated day”.   Two weeks have passed since I got my second shot.  I got the Moderna.  I did not have much of a reaction to either the first or the second shot.  Being tired might just be due to being old. I am sick of being locked down.  I used to […]

March 12th, 2021 by Gary Osberg

Next Wednesday is Saint Patrick’s Day.  The song “Oh Danny Boy” is a very popular Irish song.  The tune is known as the “Londonderry Air” and it originated in the northern most county of Ireland.  The story goes that some time in the 1600 hundreds, a blind harpist, Rory Dall O’Cahan, left a gig at […]

March 5th, 2021 by Gary Osberg

In the spring of 2000 I visited our classical music station in Sun Valley, Idaho, KWRV 91.9,  for the first time.  When I made my second trip in the fall of 2000, I decided to drive the rental car to Bozeman, Montana and visit my Uncle Bill and Aunt Maggie.  I wanted to get to […]