Tag Archives: first love

In With a Shout, Out With a Whimper

Posted on February 20, 2024 by mitchteemley

The Daily Planet (a.k.a. World’s Fare) – Top: Jeph and Mitch. Bottom: Joey and Marc My Real Memoir The year had started with such promise! My band The Daily Planet had finished recording its debut album, and by summer our … 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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My First “I Love You”

Posted on August 1, 2023 by mitchteemley

Photo by Mike Olbinski My Real Memoir I should have been thrilled. I was 17, had just had a three-day fling with a Texas blonde named Lynn who had curves till the cows came home, and had fallen madly in … 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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The Cloud Shepherd

Posted on August 27, 2022 by mitchteemley

The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. En route to find his sister somewhere in the world of Ismara, Zack was … Continue reading →

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My First Girlfriend

Posted on July 20, 2021 by mitchteemley

Photo by Gerrie Vernon My Real Memoir While still in 2nd grade, inspired by the Little Rascals, my buddy Jeff and I formed a “He Man Woman Haters Club (No Girlz Allowed!).” We met a couple of times in a … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 7, 2015 by mitchteemley

“They laughed like people using up their final allotment of happiness. Desperately. Hopelessly.” ~From The Wishing Map 34

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