RD Blakeslee

1 week ago | lenpenzo.com | RD Blakeslee |Len Penzo

The following was written by my late wife Elaine. She wrote a long book, a diary really, from which this is one passage:My Mother’s Piano TalentI have a yellowed, brittle newspaper clipping, not dated, about a recital which was probably in the late 1920s or early 1930s, and I think it was from a Windsor newspaper since the article referred to “border cities,” which would be Windsor and Detroit.

3 weeks ago | lenpenzo.com | RD Blakeslee |Len Penzo

The following was written by my late wife Elaine. She wrote a long book, a diary really, from which this is one passage:Salvation Army Music When Ellen and I were planning our trip to Alderney in 1990, we found out that when Dad and other 17-year-olds left the island to join the Canadian Army, the Salvation Army Band played them off.

1 month ago | lenpenzo.com | RD Blakeslee |Len Penzo

The following was written by my late wife Elaine. She wrote a long book, a diary really, from which this is one passage:My Weekly Piano LessonsMy weekly piano lessons began in 1941 in an upper flat in Detroit from our church organist and traveling piano teacher. This is when my lifelong love of playing the piano, including all the practicing, began; I was 7.

1 month ago | lenpenzo.com | RD Blakeslee |Len Penzo

The following was written by my late wife Elaine. She wrote a long book, a diary really, from which this is one passage:E-Mails: Why I think they’re great and why I think they’re notThey’re easy, although Dave has to “set it up” for me, and he also has to send them; all I know how to do right now is type ’em. So, I type e-mail notes to my longest-distance children, and just like a phone call, it’s instant! But I hate to think that its ease and speed may be replacing letter writing.

2 months ago | lenpenzo.com | RD Blakeslee |Len Penzo

The following was written by my late wife Elaine. She wrote a long book, a diary really, from which this is one passage:Miscellaneous Thoughts About Life I Want to Share With YouMy children are more demonstrative than I and my parents and grandparents were.