We were bored, as I remember it. It was Christmas 1972 and we had traveled to Bloomington, Minnesota to spend the holiday with my mother’s sister, Auntie Gladys, and her…
1. Did you ever think that you’d be a star? If yes, doing what? I used to tell my mother that when I grew up, I was going to be…
In my mother’s eyes, it was all about fairness. Equality. Justice. Even when she took the concept to illogical and decidedly unfair extremes. It’s really no wonder that I wound…
California has been wet, windy, and wild this week. On Monday afternoon, I was driving west on Highway 4 near the Pittsburgh BART station en route to Marin County. I…
1. About how many hours a week do you spend watching TV? I spend far fewer hours actually watching television than the television set is turned on. I listen to…
. . . Continued from Getting into Trouble. It’s a difficult story about a difficult time in my life, so I have told it in a straight-forward manner few times…
His name was Reggie and I had never known anyone like him. It was early 1978. I was 21 years old and living in Fullerton, California. Away from home for…