The 200th Post: Happy B'day, Ezra

Guest appearances by Norah Jones, Sandra Boynton and others

Ezra on the hottest day of the year last month at the Sagamore Hotel at Bolton Landing on Lake George, NY

Greetings, fellow travelers. This is the 200th Critical Conditions post, so I thought we should take some inventory. And Saturday was the first birthday of my grandson Ezra.

When I started this endeavor around June 1, 2021, I only had a handful of subscribers. I asked friend Paul Weinstein, who has an annual "music letter" that he sends out via email the end of each year, to inform his list of the existence and his approval of "Critical Conditions by Wayne Robins" (at the beginning, I wanted to make sure my name was in the title for search-and-find purposes). For nearly 60 years I have refused to name any column "Rockin' Robins," and I was not about to start now. Nor “Wayne’s World,” duh! Anyway, Paul's email brought in a bunch of subscribers. At first I enlisted some Facebook followers; then used what was then Twitter for a handful more. I always found self-promotion distasteful …