Swap Meet

Chief and Aisha pull up in their green milk truck made into a van.  It had a bed and a little stove, refrigerator, carpet, lamp… all the amenities.   Now the party could begin.  Everyone had been waiting for them to arrive. Aisha was the earthy hippie  goddess – free spirited, delightful laugh, long bushy… Continue reading Swap Meet

Strawberry Pickers

Kristie and her good friend and neighbor,  Jackie, were hippie mamas together.  Jackie taught her how to sew easy cover-up tops out of Indian bedspreads and tropical prints.  They were both pregnant together.  Each woman had a baby girl – every woman’s dream – perfectly behaved little blondies with big blue eyes. It was strawberry… Continue reading Strawberry Pickers

Light My Fire

She couldn’t really say how this happened, but here she was, now in her mid-sixties about to light up a pipe full after having been straight for over thirty-five years. She had run with the best of them back in the hey days of the sixties when everyone of a certain age was pie-eyed from… Continue reading Light My Fire