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First Date with a Stoner

August 19, 2019August 19, 2019 Posted in bar, Beatles, best, boyfriend, California, dancing, dating, feet, football, friends, helpful strangers, humor, marijuana, memoir, music, relationships, socializing, worstLeave a comment

(re-run) You said yes to the guy who asked you out two years ago and you turned him down. Now he has shown up at a dancing venue in Concord on the same day you wondered whatever happened to him. You see, he lives in San Francisco and you live in Suburbia. Then you agree… Continue reading First Date with a Stoner

First Date Red Flags

March 18, 2019March 18, 2019 Posted in bar, Beatles, best, boyfriend, California, dancing, dating, feet, football, friends, helpful strangers, humor, marijuana, memoir, music, relationships, socializing, worstLeave a comment

Okay, you said yes to the guy who asked you out two years ago and you turned him down. Now he has shown up at a dancing venue in Concord on the same day you wondered whatever happened to him. You see, he lives in San Francisco and you live in Suburbia. Then you agree… Continue reading First Date Red Flags

Kavanaugh Hearing a Trigger Event

October 5, 2018October 5, 2018 Posted in co-worker, date rape, high school, marijuana, mom, movie, police officer, relationships, sexual assaultLeave a comment

My high school girlfriend’s little sister from Iowa told me this on Facebook Messenger yesterday. Because I had come out about my rape, she wanted to tell me about her date rape at age fifteen. This is verbatim and hard to read, but the world needs to know that this happens. “I really need to… Continue reading Kavanaugh Hearing a Trigger Event

First Date Red Flags

September 17, 2018March 18, 2019 Posted in bar, Beatles, best, boyfriend, California, dancing, dating, feet, football, friends, helpful strangers, humor, marijuana, memoir, music, relationships, socializing, worstLeave a comment

Worst Husband Ever

June 7, 2018June 5, 2018 Posted in appendicitis, appendix, Boston, children, family, funeral, Grateful Dead, hospital, humor, husband, marijuana, mom, New Jersey, relationships, worstLeave a comment

PK lived in Jersey when her friend’s mum was terminally ill in Boston. When her friend called to say her mother had died, PK woke up feeling bad but thought it was the heat. She wanted to go to the funeral and surprise her friend. She loaded up her three-year-old daughter and took off for… Continue reading Worst Husband Ever

Almost Toast

March 23, 2018 Posted in California, college, dating, divorce, friends, holidays, humor, marijuana, marriage, mom, relationships, roommate, San Francisco, travelLeave a comment

Marlene and her friend Beth came out to California from New Hampshire after college to work for Bank of America. They each made a new friend, and each new friend brought another friend to the party (plus one more) until they were a group of seven recent college graduates, living in the city of San… Continue reading Almost Toast

Belly-up Beetle

January 10, 2018January 10, 2018 Posted in alcohol abuse, California, cars, dating, friends, guardian angel, high school, humor, marijuana, relationships, seniors, survival, worstLeave a comment

Curtis drove the VW, 1969 vintage beetle. Smoking George, his wingman, brought the weed. They’d met their dates at a party. Stacy and Camille went to San Leandro High. Curtis and George went to Castro Valley. Curtis liked Camille. George got Stacy. They all partied at a friend of a friend’s house in Oakland until… Continue reading Belly-up Beetle

Pennies from Heaven

January 9, 2018January 9, 2018 Posted in best, blues, coincidence, deceased, drugs, Eric Clapton, Google, head shop, high school, humor, Iowa, J.J. Cale, marijuana, memoir, music, relationships, singing, songwriterLeave a comment

When I was sixteen, I saved up my babysitting money and went downtown to Cottage Grove Avenue in Des Moines, where there was a head shop filled with incense, hanging beads, roach clips, and tie dye. Although I wasn’t a pothead, I enjoyed the ambience of the place and the way my hair smelled when… Continue reading Pennies from Heaven

The Cat Lady

January 8, 2018January 8, 2018 Posted in alcohol abuse, California, cats, dumping someone, humor, marijuana, one-night stand, relationships, worstLeave a comment

She seemed normal enough. James met her on the softball diamond — he was playing, shortstop, she was second base. It was a singles club event for Labor Day. He wasn’t an actual member but showed up on the holidays. Beth was sort of cute, her body pretty good for fifty plus. He was also… Continue reading The Cat Lady