Tag Archives: dating

Cheating on My Future Love?

Posted on June 25, 2024 by mitchteemley

Source: vocal.media.com My Real Memoir We’d only been on three dates. But already I had a sense that Darlene might be “the one.” Not only couldn’t I stop thinking about her, I didn’t even want to think about anyone else. … Continue reading →

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Longing to Fly

Posted on June 18, 2024 by mitchteemley

Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin My Real Memoir I flew every day, straight up into the sky. Admittedly, I had help from my grandfather. But then, before I was two, he died, and I had to learn how to fly on … Continue reading →

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The Girl With the Beautiful Brain

Posted on May 21, 2024 by mitchteemley

Image by Etienne Boulanger My Real Memoir I’d been living alone for a few weeks now and cherished my little corner of paradise. But I’d also gotten a taste of how lonely and brutal a life of isolation can be. … Continue reading →

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Date Night at the Grocery Store

Posted on August 9, 2023 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Jeff Cann of The Other Stuff. Jeff, who lives, works and writes in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, has written essays and stories for numerous magazines and websites, as well as two autobiographical books, Fragments and Badass. … Continue reading →

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My Summer of Love

Posted on July 18, 2023 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir Martha. It was an old-fashioned name for an old-fashioned girl from an old-fashioned family. Echoing Chekhov, there were three sisters, a “rebellious one,” a “baby-of-the-family,” and a “good one.” Martha was the good one, and she 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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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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40 Years Ago Today

Posted on January 12, 2023 by mitchteemley

“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” ~Ruth Bell Graham Have you talked to your co-forgiver lately?  40 years ago today I met the woman I would marry.* Of course, I had no idea at the time. … Continue reading →

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Something Wonderfully Wrong

Posted on January 20, 2022 by mitchteemley

On a blustery January day 39 years ago, I met a girl who loved God and Shakespeare (in that order). She was smart. Creative. And as pretty as English china. Outwardly decorous, inwardly stubborn—Jane Austen meets the Rebel Alliance. I thought … Continue reading →

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