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Goodbye to You My Trusted Friend

A month ago, we lost singer-songwriter-poet, Rod McKuen… I lost an old friend. Over the last few weeks I’ve been wanting to write a journal entry, acknowledgment, grief, appreciation, and perhaps little bit about the decade I spent hanging out with Rod, but I really have no idea where to begin. Looking back, let me say that I’m grateful that we shared a chapter in each other’s lives.

When I first…

‘King of Kitsch’ Rod McKuen dies

McKuen reached the peak of his popularity in the late ’60s and ’70s

Populist poet and prolific songwriter Rod McKuen has died at the age of 81.

Known as the ‘King of Kitsch’, he died in Los Angeles of respiratory arrest after suffering from pneumonia.

A Grammy winner and double Oscar nominee, McKuen worked with a string of household names including Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand.

His…

"a leader is a man or woman demanding of respect like a father or a God not someone who will send his legion to slip behind the borders of  another nation pocketing the payload for the hit man!"

Rod McKuen - Without A Worry In The World.

Rod McKuen - Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes.