If you lived in the Bay City area and you did musical theater, eventually, you would work with Patricia Ankney – also known as Miss Pat. Miss Pat was short and fat, was a good, but demanding, director, and had a nasty temper if you got on her wrong side. In her later years, she…
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,…
Okay. Truth be told, Ferd Keeners (names have been changed to protect the innocent – nah, it’s just a nickname I have for Ken Frieders) did not break my leg. It was the culmination of teens fucking around. It was the first day of Christmas vacation my senior year of high school, and I attended…
Thoughts from a Fat Old Lady 