October 27, 1977. Abilene, Texas. Mid-afternoon, I get a call from my sister who is working for a local radio station. She's got two extra tickets for the Doobie Brothers concert at Taylor County Coliseum that night. Would I like them? Sure, I say, sounds fun. The girl I was semi-dating at the time was …
Enchanted April’s Closing Weekend
Friday morning, as I stood with Scott and Pam Nolte in the Gordito's parking lot watching water cascading into the lobby of Taproot Theatre, one thing was very clear: there would be no performance of Enchanted April that night. There would be a mountain of work, sorting everything out, getting the theatre back on its …
The Near-Taproot Fire
So I'm sitting at the coffee shop at 6:10, when a prayer request from one of the women at church comes across my desktop. Something about a 3-alarm fire near 85th and Greenwood, and that my good friend Scott Nolte is being interviewed. It takes a minute to register. I go to KING 5 News' …
Seeing a Master – Andrew Wyeth’s Helga
So we're taking one day a month for spiritual retreat and renewal, and I hadn't gotten to mine yet, so yesterday, I took half a day. I spent the early morning reading from the prophet Isaiah and from Matthew's gospel, then went on to Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton, and then to poetry by …
JEFF BERRYMAN 