Returning with a Vengeance

Many thanks to all of you who reminded me of what a sluggard I've been with regard to updating this blog: Michele, Robin, Mel, and of course my wonderful wife Deidre. I won't even try to use the excuse of being busy and distracted, because that's true of just about anyone in this age. But I have had a pretty full schedule, what with my responsibilities as a father and a partner in The Knight Agency, along with two "hobbies" that have taken a lot of time that might otherwise have gone to blogging: playing guitar and writing for the hometown paper. Some of those newspaper columns are about purely local issues, but a number of them are appropriate for posting here, and I plan to include a number of them on this blog in the next few weeks. But first....

A million thanks to my good friend Beth Holley, who converted a set of old family slides from the 1960s to digital format. Below you'll find a number of these, along with notes to explain what you're seeing.



Mom feeding me. This would have been some time in the fall of 1964 in West Chicago, where my family was living at the time I was born.


Herewith I join the ranks of those who can proudly say, "I've posted nude pictures of myself on the Internet." That's Tom, my oldest sibling (he was fifteen at the time), giving me a bath. Isn't it funny how a baby can look like an old person?





Engaged in a favorite activity--even today, though I have no idea what became of the teddy bear.













The five Knight kids on their first Christmas together. That's Joe, Tom, Jon, me, and Anne.









First birthday, Manila, 1965. This and the two pictures that follow constitute a short biography--a sort of portrait of the artist as a young man. So much of what was to follow for me is encapsulated here.





Enticed by beauty and wonder...










...But now a little older and wiser, a postlapsarian self.








Second birthday--proof that I'm capable of learning from past mistakes!









The end, as it were, or at least my (rear) end. Will post more pictures soon. And again, to all of my friends out there in blogland, thanks for giving me a swift kick in said rear end!