We did not simply have a wonderful Christmas time. I wonder sometimes what Paul McCartney meant when he wrote that phrase over and over again in that Christmas song you hear every single time you run into a store frantic for some ingredient you forgot. Is anything simple about Christmas time? This year the coronavirus [...]
We sat near our regular seats at Lambeau Field and marveled as Sir Paul McCartney turned that giant stadium into the Cavern Club in Liverpool, circa 1961. At times it felt like we were all sitting around a table having a pint as he told amiable stories about his friends Jimmy, Georgie and John. Then, [...]
The temperature, which hovered in the high 90s Tuesday night, had nothing to do with our three-generational swoon. The racing hearts? The weak knees? The goofy gazes? Blame them all on Sir Paul McCartney, who held all 45,000 of us (including my mother, my sister Kathy, Molly and me) in his gifted, frenetic hands during [...]