Tag Archives: teenager

This Is My Real Memoir (Honest)

Posted on October 14, 2025 by mitchteemley

Now’s your chance! How’s that for a generically exciting lede? On Tuesdays, I normally post my epic birth-to-infinity memoirs (eat your heart out, Ulysses). But I’ve just started a week-long project, so I’m taking a break from blogging. And this … Continue reading →

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The 32-Second Killing Spree

Posted on August 26, 2024 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week Five years ago, a young man opened fire on a crowd of people in nearby Dayton, Ohio, where many of my friends live. Which is hardly even news. I mean, mass shootings happen every day in … Continue reading →

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A Bitter Reunion

Posted on August 17, 2024 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 it from the start, click here. Gina and Zack’s search for a monstrous Questing Beast has led them to Rennou, where Gina and … Continue reading →

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Finally Up to Bat!

Posted on March 5, 2024 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir “When you can’t find a way,” my hero George Pal had told me, “make a way.” I’d decided to do just that. For starters, my GPA had plummeted so badly that I was in danger of winning … Continue reading →

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Thank You, God, For Not Making Me a Star

Posted on February 13, 2024 by mitchteemley

Above: The Daily Planet – Mitch (top), Jeph (L), Joey (middle), Marc (R), B of A Achievement Award, stream-of-conscious notebook pages (no actual writing class assignments have survived) My Real Memoir I was imploding with unfulfilled and unrecognized yearnings. I’d … Continue reading →

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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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Why I Don’t Do Drugs

Posted on January 30, 2024 by mitchteemley

A short time after doing drugs for the first time, I scribbled the above anxiety-fueled meditation (and accompanying doodle) about looking into one’s own brain and never being able to look out again. My Real Memoir I’d turned nineteen, and … Continue reading →

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Getting My Wisdom Removed

Posted on November 7, 2023 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir They’re called wisdom teeth because they emerge when we reach adulthood (late teens to early 20s) and are now officially “wise.” Yeah, right. How many wise 18-year-olds do you know? How many wise any-year-olds do you know? … Continue reading →

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Master of My Fate?

Posted on August 22, 2023 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir I started my senior year with the sense that I’d arrived. I was wise, mature, blessed. Wait, no, not blessed—I was the one who at 17 had made myself who I was. I was the master of … 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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