Tag: True Stories

Psychological Immunity In Real Life

There was enough interest on the More On Psychological Immunity post, I want to elaborate and make this mechanism, very clear.   I mentioned my father would start up with some oddness.  My sister observed he had no staying power. I said this had a big …

Perils of Serving Alcohol Underage

Okay!! I found the story about that boy’s sister, mentioned in Mistaken Identity.  She’s quite hard to describe. This family moved from California, I remember that.  That didn’t mean anything in this era.  She had Aquarian energy. In …

Aquarius Married to Aquarius – The Blue Streak

My parents were both Aquarians. My mother was a double Aquarius. My father was Aquarius with four planets and his n. node in the sign. That’s a lot of Aquarius! I was visiting my sister and her husband. We were sitting around telling stories, whi…

Contest – Meeting Tom Heinsohn

This is a true story. Catch up here: The Contest. We spotted, Tommy, right away. It’s the height thing. Couldn’t miss him, because he was towering over the crowd which meant he was eye to eye with my husband. There was some backslapping happening too. …

Contest – What About My Beer?

This is a true story. Catch up here: The Contest. Well I had to do that. Talk about a disaster. I was not kidding about “tired”. The last thing I needed to do was drive three hours, fly six more, then check into a hotel just to eat dinner with someone …

Contest

This is a true story. I worked for Frito Lay at the time. I was twenty- six, when a contest was announced. It was a random drawing of salespeople (10,000 of them) but I knew that I could win as soon as I touched the paper. Why? Because I’m clever…

Are You A Scorpio? (Comedy)

I wish it were possible to post this story about meeting, Ben. I can’t, because of the candid language of the era, but I have an excerpt (that has some candid language). Back story: The food and beverage manager of the Commodore Hotel was a gay m…

Taking A Couple Days Off (and here’s a story)

We have family coming in, Friday and Saturday.  I’m usually fast to respond but this won’t necessarily be the case over the next few days, as we’ve got plans to be out and about.  I don’t expect to get any newsletters done, eith…