Robin and Linda Williams: 2020's First Email

Hey Folks,
Happy 2020! We hope the new year is starting out well for you. We remember, as young people, how far away the year 2000 seemed. And now that's a dim memory. Robin recently mentioned the term "Y2K" to a window teller at a McDonalds and she looked at him like a puzzled puppy. Of course, she did. She wasn't alive in 2000 and could not possibly have known how worried folks were that the world as we knew it was going to end, that businesses everywhere would close and peoples' life savings would disappear in a mysterious cloud of cyberism. His cousin just sent a text message saying she loved us "a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck." It immediately brought to mind a song Robin's mother used to sing to him. He even remembered the melody. Thanks to Google we found out the line came from a hit song in 1950 by Perry Como and Betty Hutton. Wonder what songs kids are going to remember their mothers singing to them 70 years from now. Ê

And, luckily, we still have music in our lives. And thanks to modern medicine, we fortunately can still go out and play and sing our songs. To tell the truth we've been wondering about all that as Linda got hit hard and laid low all of November by a blood infection which led to three more surgeries on her ankle and then an arrhythmic heart - yes, it stopped - caused by an antibiotic used to heal the infection. Talk about the cure being worse than the cause! So, the doctors switched the antibiotic and we've spent the last six weeks waiting to get the word that the infection in the ankle was gone. We got that assurance last week and just this week received word that Linda may leave the world of knee scooters and wheel chairs behind and start putting weight on her ankle again. Nobody likes hospitals unless you need them - and we did. ÊÊ

So now we can turn our full attention to getting back to our music. And as it happens, we have some new songs ready to be taken out into the world. This latest episode hit us on the last day of a week of recording with our friend Kevin McNoldy. We really liked what we were coming up with, and it was disappointing to have to stop. But we don't have that much more to do before it's finished. Luckily the best medicine for recovery is to play, so we started picking and singing soon after Linda got home, the whole time hoping and praying we would be able to do the concerts we had booked on our schedule. Ê

On Monday, we got the okay from her orthopedic surgeon that she can put weight on her poor little old foot. So, she's up and around, going up and down stairs and we are both excited about getting out to Dallas, TX Feb 1st and San Marcos, TX Feb 7tth to perform and visit some friends and family in the days between. We feel like a couple of lucky rascals.

Bumper Sticker Of The Month: ÊI did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words. Ê Every year about this time we get to enjoy a continuing perk from being in the film "A Prairie Home Companion." Due to our union affiliation with SAG/AFTRA, we are sent most of the movies that are up for consideration for the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards. What better way to spend a winter night? So far, weve w'atched "Harriet" and "Bombshell." Robin' s up for watching "Joker" next but Linda is not so sure. That experience is still on our Top Ten. ÊÊ

Bumper Sticker Of The Month: ÊI did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words. Ê

That's it for 2020's first email. Here's wishing us all good health and spirits as the year progresse. Go out and see some live music as soon as you can. And keep on the sunny side.

Your pals,
Robin and Linda

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