Colors, Critters, Cats, and my Journey with MS

Friday, February 2, 2024

Born on this day – James Dickey:

Writer

February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997

Credits:

Books:

Alnilam (1987); Buckdancer's Choice (1965); Deliverance (1970); Drownings (1981); For a Time and Place (1983); From the Green Horseshoe (1987); Night Hurdling (1983); Sorties (1971); The Eagle's Mile (1981); The Selected Poems (1979); The Zodiac (1976); To the White Sea (1993).

Movies:

The Call of the Wild (1976); Deliverance (1972).

Born on this day – Frank Gruber:

Writer

February 2, 1904 – December 9, 1969

Credits:

Beagle Scented Murder (1946); Billy the Kid (1957); Bitter Sage (1954); Bitter Sage and the Bushwhackers (1984); Black Cat Weekly #98 (2023); Brass Knuckles (1966); Bridge of Sand (1963); Broken Lance (1949); Brothers of Silence (1962); Buffalo Grass aka The Big Land (1956); Bugles West (1961); Classic Detective Stories From a Suitcase of Suspense (1999); Fall-Guy for a Killer aka The Yellow Overcoat (1942); Fighting Man (1948); Fort Starvation (1953); Fourth Postman / Among Those Absent / Lock and the Key (1948); Gunsight (1953); Horatio Alger, Jr (1961); Johnny Vengeance (1954); Little Hercules (1965); Lonesome River (1957); Market for Murder (1947); Missing Widow / Scarlet Feather / I Want to Go Home (1948); Murder '97 (1948); Outlaw (1941); Peace Marshal (1957); Quantrell's Raider / Town Tamer (1984); Quantrell's Raiders (1953); Ride to Hell (1955); Ride to Hell / Lonesome River (1983); Run, Fool, Run aka The Lock and the Key (1948); Simon Lash: Private Detective (1945); Sleeping Sphinx / Beagle Scented Murder / Death of a Doll (1948); Swing Low, Swing Dead (1964); Tales of Terror (1967); Tales of Wells Fargo (1958); The Books of Horatio Alger, Jr (1948); The Boris Karloff Horror Anthology (1965); The Buffalo Box (1942); The Bushwhackers (1959); The Corpse Moved Upstairs (1964); The Curly Wolf (1969); The Dawn Riders (1968); The Etruscan Bull (1969); The Fourth Letter (1947); The French Key aka The French Key Mystery (1940); The Gift Horse (1942); The Gold Gap (1968); The Greek Affair (1965); The Highwayman (1955); The Honest Dealer aka Double Dealer (1947); The Hungry Dog Murders aka Die Like a Dog (1941); The Laughing Fox (1943); The Leather Duke aka A Job of Murder (1950); The Limping Goose aka Murder One (1955); The Lone Gunhawk aka Smoky Road (1949); The Lonesome Badger aka Mood for Murder (1954); The Man From Missouri (1956); The Marshal (1958); The Mighty Blockhead (1945); The Navy Colt (1941); The Pulp Jungle (1967); The Scarlet Feather (1948); The Silver Jackass (1947); The Silver Tombstone Mystery (1948); The Spanish Prisoner (1969); The Talking Clock (1944); The Thirteenth Floor (1948); The Twilight Man (1967); The Whispering Master (1956); This Gun Is Still (1967); Town Tamer (1957); Twenty Plus Two (1961); Wanted (1971); Zane Grey (1928).

Born on this day – Casey Bill Weldon:

Blues singer

Guitarist

February 2, 1901 – September 28, 1972

Born on this day – Walter Vinson:

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

February 2, 1901 – April 22, 1975

Naomi Shihab Nye, on reading:

I love the solitude of reading.

I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

- Naomi Shihab Nye.