first billy mays, now mary travers.
September 17th, 2009
It’s all getting to be a bit much for me. Eileen was reading Huffington Post last night and gasped. “Mary Travers died!” Then not five minutes later: “Oh my god, Henry Gibson died!”
What is going on around here?
The shock of people passing away at age 72 or 73 is part of it for sure. But more and more people I know are dying. And I don’t like it one little bit.
And of course I know what is really happening. I AM GETTING OLDER AND SO THE PEOPLE I KNOW ARE GETTING OLDER. And then s**t happens and poof they are gone.
Or should I say “puff?”
Mary Travers had a remarkable voice. In oh so many ways. Have a read in my weekly piece for The Star Ledger: “Mary Travers is Gone. Puff! Just Like That!“