Tag: SLU

• All Nighters

  Do you remember life before the internet? We were returning from the university cafeteria, stopping and chatting with everyone we knew on campus, which was just about everyone, headed back to the sorority dorm at my small state college. Looking at us (we always traveled in a pack of 5-7 girls), you would think we…

  michardillo

  May 29, 2026

  Essay

  all-nighter, Boz Skaggs, Coma, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1951, made for TV movie, Phi Mu, procrastination, Robin Cook, screenplay, Silk Degrees, SLU

• One Chord

  One chord. That’s all it takes. One chord and I instantly know this song and the artist. It’s the sound of that one chord that caused me to have a reoccurring nightmare for weeks on end in 1974 where I would hear that chord and then faint, waking up hours later after having missed an…

  michardillo

  August 30, 2015

  Essay

  8 track tape, Baton Rouge, Bennie and the Jets, Billy Joel, Candle in the Wind, Dorothy, Elton John, Emerald City, Europe, Fork Union Military Academy, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Harvest, Levon, Louisiana, LSU, Madman Across the Water, Neil Young, New Orleans, Princess Diana, SLU, The Lion King, The Wizard of Oz, Tiny Dancer