I went to my senior prom with Mike (Hairy Butt) Doriean. I have a feeling he was pressured into asking me by mutual friends, but hey, I got to go to the prom. (His middle moniker was due to information I was given by Pat Gray, who shared a few theatrical dressing rooms with Mr.…
My poor left leg has suffered so much. I don’t know why it seemed to always be the target of some disaster or another. Happily, by the time I hit my 30s the trauma abated, but before that … When we moved to Bangor Township, I was able to walk to school – one day,…
When I was in 4th grade (I think, might have been 3rd grade), my family moved from Essexville. We moved across the river – not to Bay City – to Bangor Township. This meant a whole new school system. I had been going to Hughes School in Essexville. A fine place to go to elementary…
I usually really like the 4th of July. Not this year. I love the United States. There are so many wonderful things that this country and its people have to offer. However, we seem to have become a country of too much hate, fear and cruelty. I am not pointing fingers at anyone. I have…
My Dad and my stepmom had a cottage on Long Lake (Michigan). (The family still has one but it is another cottage – a much nicer, larger cottage.) This first cottage was nothing fancy, to say the least. It did not even have an inside toilet! At least not at first. But hey, the outhouse,…
When I was in elementary school, we had a very big playground. The perimeter was fenced in, plus there was a fence that ran down the middle – monkey bars, swings, and this deadly merry-go-round thingie (more on that later) on one side, the slide, teeter-totters, and a jungle gym on the other. At recess…
When I was a freshman in high school, I had to have the rabies shot series. This was way back, when you had to have one shot a day for two weeks, and if you missed one, you had to start over! Also, the shot was in your belly. The only place I could get…
When I was 6 years old, I was hospitalized because of an earache. It was a very weird experience, and I don’t remember the particulars too well. But I did get a Chatty Cathy out of the deal. First, it was a small, almost private, hospital, with private rooms. In the middle of the night,…
When I was in second grade, I would constantly get in trouble. Not for talking in class. Not for passing notes. Not for any of the usual misdemeanors perpetrated by second graders. I got in trouble for having a messy desk. Not the outside – the inside. And the reason my desk was always chaos…
When I was a kid and you had to have surgery, they knocked you out with ether. Ether is some nasty shit. My first experience was when I had to have some baby teeth surgically removed when I was about 6 years old. I remember them putting some kind of mask over my face and…
Thoughts from a Fat Old Lady 