He spotted it in the paper, a movie company was coming to San Diego to film and they needed lots of extras. If you don’t know the lingo, extras are all those hundreds of people you see in movies who never talk. My husband is a great actor from another life, I’m sure of it. This life? Not so good. He’d heard the way into the movies was through plays, so he joined a group and did plays and he…
My girlfriend took French in high school, she had a pen-pal from France. I wanted one too, sounded fun, so she gave me a name and address. I still remember his name…..Jean Pierre Brassac. He was my age. He sent me pictures……………..I liked the Riverview boys better! But he was still fun to write back and forth with. I think the end of that story was when he sent me a proposal letter. Serious! Really! He suggested I come to…
Ridiculous, unbelievable traffic. Tourists. Smog. Fires, earthquakes and tsunamis. Lack of parking. Mountain Lions and Strange people everywhere you look. WHY on earth would anyone want to live somewhere like this; the second largest city in the U.S.? Why would they want the the Pacific Ocean, the Majestic Mountains or the Picturesque Deserts practically in their backyards? Who’d enjoy the laid-back lifestyles of attitude and dress? And the people; an amazing blend of cultural and ethnic diversity, who wants that?…
I’d been yelling at my mom for about six months. I wasn’t mad, it wasn’t that kind of yell. She just couldn’t hear me so I had to yell. I was tired of trying to convince her that her ten-year old hearing aids were dead and she needed new ones, so I just decided to go with it and yell. Nope, she wasn’t gonna spend “that kind of money.” After all, she was old and yada, yada, yada. And…