Hi Darling Ones, One minute it is the summer of 1997 and you’re sitting on the cool stone porch steps of your college best friend’s post-college rental smoking Camel Lights. It’s Sunday morning, though it…
Posts tagged Random Flashback
Day 168 of 200: How We Learned in the Time Before Google
Total gas station used to be on the corner of First Avenue and Atwood in Shakopee. The house my parents’ rented was right across the street. I worked the 3-11 shift most nights in 1996…
Day 108 of 200: On Listening to Sinead’s ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’
I was 16 the first time I passionately stated an opinion and after a grown man laughed at me and said, “Tell us what you really think.” It was Mr. Davids who laughed at me….
Day 88 of 200: Pep Fest
During my sophomore year of high school the seniors were the class of 1988. We were the class of 1990. A lot of Fridays we would have pep fests in the school gym. They’d pull…
Don’t Let it Burn, Don’t Let it Fade
News of Dolores O’Riordan’s death has picked me up from where I sat on the chilly blue couch here in 2018 and plummeted me back to Eau Claire circa 1993 (or maybe 1994). Specifically it’s…