Me taken in 1974 in Los Angeles&… Read full post »

All three of us; Shelly, Serge and I, sat in the front seat.  There was no mention made of what had just taken place.  Maybe they knew what I was going through. They never did say it would be easy.  In fact, they never said much.

I tried not to… Read full post »

We received a lovely box of delectable chocolates as a gift. It was from the mentally retarded daughter of an employee of my husband's and was an expression of her sincere… Read full post »

 In fact, I have kissed hundreds of frogs and I would do it again in a hot minute, given another opportunity.  A frog by any other name is still a frog,… Read full post »

I reasoned the only way I could continue to pay rent and eat would be to get a job as a cocktail waitress. If I was going to be in bars every night, might as well get… Read full post »

The red tail hawk circled the ground effortlessly at eye level.  Once the circle was at his closest point to me his eye caught mine briefly, his wings tipping ever so slightly in an elegant, graceful acknowledgement of shared space.

It is but mere a moment in time, yet one… Read full post »

I should not have been surprised at how sick I was; I had tonsillitis.  The doctors at the Army Hospital in Oakland decided I should get my tonsils taken out. When you are the single parent of a two year old, you wonder how you will handle it. For a… Read full post »

The flight from San Francisco was an overnighter, landing in London on New Year’s Day, 1968. I had a slight champagne hangover, being the jetsetter I am.  All of the other passengers in First Class banded together to form our little party in the sky, first-rate music, food, champagne and w… Read full post »

 Fortunately abortions were not yet legal.  On November 9, 1966 (Daddy’s birthday) in a church I’d never attended, I walked down the isle on the arm of my father, legs barely able to walk for all the quivering.  My high school sweetheart, the father of the baby in my… Read full post »

"You and I are going for a drive."  Mother said in her matter-of-no-choice tone.  Ironically the place she chose, the beach parking lot, was the exact place I had gott… Read full post »

Well, not quite that bad, but hearing how brothels are experiencing a downturn in business, during this downturn in the economy, is making news?  Give me a break.

Look, I feel bad for the women, sure, but having worked in a legal brothel during the 70’s it was no picnic… Read full post »

Ahhh, the joys of aging! I remember when I was young and in love. Sigh. There were certain things, at this precarious stage of our lives we would never discuss with our lover, much less admit to. For instance fluffing.   In cruder language, fluffs are nothing more t… Read full post »

Since when did someone flipping me off get personal?  

I have never, until yesterday, flipped anyone off in my vast number of years in existence.  What was it about yesterday that prompted me to actually do it? Could it be the  cumulative pressure of so much crap floating in this… Read full post »