Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Discovering Discrimination
I was booed off the stage just because I was white - and that was the first time in my young life that I was hated purely for the color of my skin. Back in 1976 while I was still in high school, I sang professionally with 2 bands. One was a group of 30ish convicted felons who were doing the disco...
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Sunday, October 5, 2008
Me and My Sisters On The Ski Lift at Seven Springs
The Birth Of A Phobia. I never had any type of phobias until that summer of 1972 when my family traumatized me. Prior to these 2 incidents, I was a happy well-adjusted pre-teen who had a glee for life. Riding my bike with no hands down steep hills / smoking cigarettes in the woods with my bad...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Don't Drink From The Water Glass...
unless you are sure it isn't Vodka!! My Aunt Aida gave me the shock of a lifetime one afternoon in San Francisco in 1976 when I was shipped there by my parents for a month to "get over" my 27 year old Russian Ballet dancer boyfriend. I was only 17 (will post later about Sasha). I had a killer...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
"You Are Allergic To Chocolate?"
I swear that was the most riveting information that was gathered at my recent stay at the hospital from the doctors rather than latex. As a child, I had many allergies and the Grand Puba was chocolate and eggs. Forget cake / ice cream / Easter Candy / and hello cigar box full of money under my bed....
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
The Reality of Demise
I guess your life really begins when you realize that you can die. In just one blink of an eye - everything is gone. Hopes - dreams - fantasies - beliefs - all lost. And the damages that follow - oh the pain it causes the people that love and care for you. Or maybe just someone you met briefly for a...
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Friday, September 19, 2008
My Dog Died Last Month
It is so hard to get Zelda out of my mind. I know that I am not supposed to - she was the greatest dog and a member of the family for 12 years - but somehow there is a deep hole in my heart. My boyfriend could barely function the first week after her death. The cancer came - two weeks later she was...
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
Terry Is Killing Himself With Booze and Cigarettes
Working at a bar and grille may be fun sometimes, but not when I see Terry. He has been diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer and pretty much just gave up. He looks like a skeleton / chipped a tooth yesterday when he fell on the ice / and mooches for whiskey off of other customers. Buttchie is...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
"Kaffy - How Will Santa Find Me?"
Eric asked me this question as they loaded the moving van 2 days ago after the bank foreclosed on their house. Naturally I told the poor little soul that Santa finds all children - even if they are not at their "usual" home. Eric told me that they were moving in with gramma because mommy said "daddy...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
My 12 Year Old Daughter Cried While Watching The News
When they aired the story about the couple who beat their 2 year-old daughter with leather belts / drowned her in the bath tub / put her in a trunk / and threw her in the river. The she said "You know mom - there is such a thing as birth control and adoption". Out of the mouth of babes - THE TRUTH....
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
I Am The N-Lover on My Street
It's pretty sad that in the year of 2007 that driving children back and forth to school causes such a racist uproar. Where I live is predominantly white (I am white) and extremely racist. Now I have worked as a restaurant and hotel manager for years and I have worked with every ethnic background and...
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