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Category Archives: Memoir
The Key to Lawn (and Self) Mowing
Thought for the Week We’d bought our first house with a yard, and I was excited about mowing! I got over that quick. Still, if ya got grass, ya gotta mow, and that means: 1) You have to cut it … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Humor, Memoir, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged discipleship, funny, Isaiah 40:8, motivation, wisdom
27 Comments
Playing the Field
My Real Memoir By age 16 my infatuation with girls had gone malarial; no net could contain me. I flirted shamelessly with anyone and everyone I found attractive. I never mentioned other girls to my pen pal Judy, for example. … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir
Tagged acting, dating, high school, My Real Memoir, romance, teenagers, theatre, young love
36 Comments
Just Mitch
My Real Memoir God believed in me. Even though, by my teens, I’d decided he didn’t exist and had come to consider believers rather simple-minded. Still, I could be tactfully dodgy. I told my pen pal Judy I believed in … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir, Quips and Quotes
Tagged 1960s, funny, God, love, My Real Memoir, peace, The Diary of Anne Frank
39 Comments
Cheddar Cheese and Rock ‘n’ Roll
My Real Memoir Suddenly, without realizing it, I acquired a third BFF. Unthinkable! Oh, I’d had good friends before, lots of them. Even some temporary BFs like my “Fatman and Ribbon” cohort Fred, unwitting host of the infamous “IHeardThereWasAnOrgyAtFred’sHouse” party. … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir
Tagged 1960s, food, funny, mac and cheese, music, My Real Memoir, rock 'n' roll, World War II
20 Comments
I Always Knew You Loved Me, Mom
Some years back I made the Mother’s Day video below. I’m posting it now so you can share it with friends if you wish. To show it at a church or other public gathering, click here. My mom was twenty … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Humor, Memoir, Movies, Religion/Faith
Tagged childhood, funny, love, Mother's Day, motherhood
36 Comments
The Year I Exploded
My Real Memoir Exploded creatively, that is. Although La Mirada High wasn’t an official school of the arts, a growing number of us were essentially “majoring” in music and drama. The previous year, our yearbook had noted that we were … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir
Tagged 1960s, funny, high school, music, My Real Memoir, nostalgia, rock band, theatre
37 Comments
Are You Rootbound?
Thought for the Week Trees that outgrow their planters become rootbound–strangled by their own roots, unable to grow, unable to take in nutrients. Solution? First, remove the tree from its container. Second, trim away the unhealthy roots. Third, place it … Continue reading
Sex 101
My Real Memoir Sex. A friend commented recently about my Leave It to Beaver life. But I’m not The Beav, and I never was. Beaver Cleaver was a fictional character in a sweetly sanitized sitcom. One who never discovered at … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir
Tagged 1960s, coming-of-age, lust, My Real Memoir, nostalgia, sex, Summer in the City, teenagers
28 Comments
Boys Just Wanna Have Fun
My Real Memoir Absolutely Devoted to Happy Diversions. That was pretty much my credo at age 16. Just as my OCD had emerged in my pre-teen no-stepping-on-cracks years, my ADHD emerged full-blown during my sophomore year in high school. The … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir
Tagged 1960s, ADHD, dating, funny, high school, My Real Memoir, OCD, teenager
26 Comments
I Grew Up at Disneyland!
My Real Memoir Or rather, I grew up going there. To this day I can draw a more accurate map of Disneyland than I can my home town. Still, certain visits to the Magic Kingdom glow a little brighter in … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir
Tagged 1960s, dating, Disneyland, funny, Matterhorn, memories, My Real Memoir, romance
58 Comments