Tag Archives: break-up

Loving Her Just the Way She Was

Posted on January 6, 2026 by mitchteemley

Image Source: AmoMama My Real Memoir: Loving Her Just the Way She Was But Did I Love Her? Billy Joel’s biggest hit “Just the Way You Are” was on the radio and on my mind that fall —constantly. Did I … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the Broken Hearts Club

Posted on April 1, 2025 by mitchteemley

Image by Obsidian Planet My Real Memoir I’d done the right thing, right? Saying no to an affair with a blazing hot married woman had to be fairly high on the virtuosity scale. But I didn’t feel virtuous, I felt lonely. Ruby had … Continue reading →

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Dangling by a Thread of Hope

Posted on February 4, 2025 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir I’d just turned twenty-five, and was recovering from multiple goodbyes, while pushing back against that old recurring sense of purposelessness. So I clung to what remained: I still had friends, even if the tide had carried some away. And … Continue reading →

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In Love With Falling in Love

Posted on June 4, 2024 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir Of all the times to convince myself I had no feelings. Everyone on Earth was reading the novel Love Story! The world was in love with falling in love, and what had I done? Broken-up with a … Continue reading →

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Both Sides Now

Posted on November 21, 2023 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir It started as the best month ever. Coming off our TV special, our buddy “Bob,” mega-publisher Robert Petersen, booked my band The Daily Planet for our first Big Gig (no dancing teenagers shouting “play something we know!”) … Continue reading →

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The Lost Girl

Posted on December 29, 2022 by mitchteemley

She was the callow Catholic school senior who cried the night her boyfriend French-kissed her, fearing she’d become pregnant. Five months later, now a bracingly pretty college freshman, she was wooed and plundered by her theatre professor. It was give … Continue reading →

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Don’t do it, Ken!

Posted on April 7, 2018 by mitchteemley

So, what if those tiny bottles of liquor on airplanes are actually big jugs of booze made for the millions of Kens back when the Barbies dumped them?

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Greedy Love

Posted on September 15, 2017 by mitchteemley

As of today, my wife Trudy and I have been married 32 years. I’m greedy for 32 more. Last week, without premeditation, we revisited many of the places that live in our memory. We’d flown to L.A. from our current … Continue reading →

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