A Memoir. That summer, the summer of love, the summer of 1967, went ballistic. Everyone left school that summer, as usual, but some, quite a few actually, returned completely different. Yes, I had ventured out during my sophomore year, but that summer I took a hike to hell. My friend said he had family in […]
Boys of the 60s ~ Divorce, Wrestling and Drugs (12 to 16 years old)
A Memoir. I suppose I loved my father. I cried when he left. Once, after he had moved from our home, he promised to take me fishing and I waited on the curb for a long, long time. My mother finally came and got me and that was that. That was a long long time […]
The Boys of the 60’s ~ The Adams Family and Pocatello Idaho (9-12 years old)
A Memoir. Mother had sold our home. Father had moved to NYC to work. And we vacated our little apartment and began our journey. Dan and I piled into mother’s 1959 Chevy Impala with some clothes and we left for Pocatello Idaho. Actually, to the outskirts of Pocatello known as Alameda County. We pulled into […]
The Boys of the ’60s ~ Whittier 1959 (8 years old)
A Memoir. It was 1959. We currently lived in Whittier, California where I was born in 1951. My father had punched holes in the walls one last time and had gone away. It was nearly Christmas and I wanted a football. So I licked and pasted all of my mother’s S & H Green Stamps […]