Tag Archives: acting

Running On Empty

Posted on February 6, 2024 by mitchteemley

Photo by Warren My Real Memoir We’d moved to a custom-built home in the Coyote Hills, sandwiched between the abandoned oil refinery I’d explored as a kid and the Los Coyotes Country Club where my band had played from the … Continue reading →

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Starting to Lose My Way

Posted on November 14, 2023 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir I’d never really known the way. But I thought I did, which had worked just as well. For awhile. My religion of atheism (there was no god but me, and that was just fine ‘cuz I was … 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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Am I the Real Forrest Gump?

Posted on April 13, 2023 by mitchteemley

My daughter calls me Forrest Gump. She has this theory that I’ve not only met most of the world’s famous people, but that I (accidentally) caused most of modern history’s major events. Silly, I know. All I can say is, “Daughters … Continue reading →

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California Dreamin’

Posted on April 11, 2023 by mitchteemley

 My Real Memoir During my sophomore year at our SoCal suburban high school, influenced by the star of my favorite TV show, I became our school’s unofficial Dick Van Dyke, its most prodigious practitioner of pratfalls and double-takes. But was … Continue reading →

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My Friend the Movie Star

Posted on February 28, 2023 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir Friendships shuffled during my freshman year in high school. My two childhood BFFs were still around, of course, and new friendships were popping up like Iowa corn. But my most unlikely friend that year was a bonafide … Continue reading →

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Bringing My Darkness Into the Light

Posted on February 21, 2023 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir Whatcha gonna do when the crick runs dry? My superpower since third grade had been my ability to tell funny stories and do goofy voices. And ninth grade looked to be no different. After all, I’d had … Continue reading →

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Letting My Geek Flag Fly

Posted on January 31, 2023 by mitchteemley

Drama Geek logo by impactspiritwear.com My Real Memoir “Some are born geeks, some achieve geekness, and others have geekness thrust upon them.” ~William (“Willy the Geek”) Shakespeare “Drama Geeks.” That was what they called us. “They” being the letterman-jacketed “men” … Continue reading →

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The Most Memorable Year of My Life

Posted on January 17, 2023 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir Not until my wedding, 21 years later, did I have another year that was so packed with personal memories. I’d fallen in love with music just as the Beatles and ensuing British Invasion hit, and started learning … Continue reading →

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If-Then: My Teenage Equation

Posted on December 13, 2022 by mitchteemley

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio My Real Memoir The summer before high school was packed with equations. I’d signed up for summer classes at four-year-old La Mirada High, its sidewalks still warm from the exit treds of its first graduating class. … Continue reading →

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