Tag Archives: romance

Trapped in a Box of My Own Design

Posted on January 21, 2025 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir I’d built the cabin—and now I had cabin fever. This wasn’t the life I wanted. All I did, it seemed, was administrate my tiny-but-important-sounding Newport Institute of the Arts. I was doing the one thing I said I’d never … Continue reading →

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And Then I Met This Girl…

Posted on December 3, 2024 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir I’d fallen in love with the entirety of girlkind in second grade. A third-grader had seen me skin my elbow, and tenderly rubbed my shoulders as she escorted me to the nurse’s office. That was all it took. Even … Continue reading →

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How I Became a Bad Boy

Posted on November 12, 2024 by mitchteemley

©The Shakespearean Tavern Playhouse My Real Memoir I was young and unshackled. I’d launched a street theatre group, The Right Pithee Players, and in our freewheeling improv performances, I would flirt with the crowd, tousle hair, steal caresses. And so would my … Continue reading →

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“Complete” or “Finished”?

Posted on October 9, 2024 by mitchteemley

A linguistics professor was asked to explain the difference between the words complete and finished. “Well,” he explained, when you marry the right woman you are complete. But when you marry the wrong woman you are finished. And,” he added ominously, “if the right … Continue reading →

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Your Mama Don’t Dance

Posted on October 8, 2024 by mitchteemley

Dancers by Rukmani3                  Pepito & Joanne                  Godspell My Real Memoir The moment it exploded out of my radio speaker, “Your Mama Don’t Dance” felt like my theme … Continue reading →

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A Fake Life

Posted on September 24, 2024 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir It seemed everything I’d ever wanted or trained to be was just a handful of beans, and there was no beanstalk in sight. I was making a living pretending to be an electronics engineer, while the girl … Continue reading →

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Confession: I’m in Love With Another Woman

Posted on September 23, 2024 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week My wife and I just celebrated our 39th anniversary. Does that make this a bad time to tell her I’m in love with someone else? I mean, when an ex-friend introduced his wife to the woman … Continue reading →

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Love: Turning It On and Hoping It Works

Posted on September 10, 2024 by mitchteemley

Photo by whitedaemon  My Real Memoir My girlfriend Dar and I had had too few opportunities to be intimate. So we moved in together. I’d been hired to install Sensormatic anti-shoplifting devices, just as Dar had landed a job at … Continue reading →

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Life, Meet Purpose

Posted on June 6, 2024 by mitchteemley

I was leading the performing arts ministry at a large Southern California church (the one featured in the movie Jesus Revolution). There was a girl in the group who was very attractive and ridiculously easy to talk to. We blended … 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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