Category Archives: Memoir

The Key to Lawn (and Self) Mowing

Posted on June 5, 2023 by mitchteemley

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 →

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Playing the Field

Posted on May 30, 2023 by mitchteemley

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 →

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Just Mitch

Posted on May 23, 2023 by mitchteemley

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 →

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Cheddar Cheese and Rock ‘n’ Roll

Posted on May 16, 2023 by mitchteemley

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 →

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I Always Knew You Loved Me, Mom

Posted on May 11, 2023 by mitchteemley

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 →

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The Year I Exploded

Posted on May 9, 2023 by mitchteemley

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 →

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Are You Rootbound?

Posted on May 8, 2023 by mitchteemley

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 →

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Sex 101

Posted on May 2, 2023 by mitchteemley

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 →

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Boys Just Wanna Have Fun

Posted on April 25, 2023 by mitchteemley

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 →

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I Grew Up at Disneyland!

Posted on April 18, 2023 by mitchteemley

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 →

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