MEMOIR / BLOG

After our introduction we started to date but it was not long before the new romance blossomed and Guard moved […]

CAMROSE VILLAGE I started out the year 1975, living by myself again after a 12-year partnership with Simon Posthuma went

MALIBU (Chumash word for rough road) The Booker Taliafero Jones ranch on Malibu’s Winding Way was a family affair. The

WITH A LITTLE BIT OF HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS On July 16. 1969, the date of the Moon landing, Yosha

COSMIC COUTURE When he was not residing in his mansion in Montecito, Santa Barbara, to be near his beloved polo

HAIR It was the “Dawning of the Age of Aquarius” and living in Hollywood during the late sixties felt like

A SHIP OF FOOLS The Fool celebrated New Year’s Eve of ‘68 being served dinner in our painted Bentley parked

THE OTHER SIDE The latter part of 1967 brought film director Joe Massot to The Fool’s door once more. We

A IS FOR APPLE The Baker Street APPLE headquarters building was a dreary affair and the Beatles wanted to do

THE FAB FOUR One evening Mal Evans, the Beatles’ assistant called to say John Lennon & Paul McCartney wanted to

ERIC CLAPTON’S 1964 GIBSON SG During my adventures in London during 1966, my ex-partner Simon Posthuma and I had established

ROCK & POP From the island of Ibiza my ex-partner Simon Posthuma and I moved to London in the summer

SERENDIPITY The notorious island of Ibiza in the Balearic Sea was waiting for us so Simon and I took a

ADELANTE Simon and I got off the ferry from Tangier in Morocco at Gibraltar but unfortunately didn’t see any of

IN THE CASBAH After the flight from Athens landed in Casablanca we took a bus to the city of Rabat,

THE PYTHIAN ORACLE After returning from our Paris trip I was tired of the craziness of the Amsterdam scene so

STONED IN THE STREETS The explosion of freedom of expression in the 1960’s by the baby boomers was a reaction

ALONE IN THE WORLD My life had changed drastically…After my mother married Wim Verhoef, I was made to leave my

WAR BABY The Wheel of Fortune turns in mysterious ways…During 1943 in the middle of World War II, the people