It was summer and her parents wanted to keep her busy, so they decided she should go to summer school. They signed her up for Marching Band thinking that all that exercise would be good for her. “Well, hot dog!” she thought, “120 degrees in the shade. Six weeks of marching in the hot desert… Continue reading Marching Band
Category: Wild Jane
Time period from birth to age 28 or so.
Only Thirteen
She was only thirteen, but she thought it was fun to go to college parties. She didn’t see what the problem was. She was beginning to be aware of her female power. She liked older guys, but she didn’t know she would meet Smokey. In her abundant adolescent over confidence, she wasn’t leery about trusting strangers.… Continue reading Only Thirteen
Woody
“Hey, Baby!” Woody called out as he entered the bar. He was dressed in his usual garb of slim black pants, a short white sleeved shirt, a skinny black tie, and a beige three quarter length over coat and a pork pie hat set back on his head framing his face. He wasn’t unattractive. He… Continue reading Woody
The Puppy Incident
She heard talk from an early age that it was “difficult to raise boys.” As the years progressed she began to have a few questions, like: Why is there a hole in the middle of the soap? What is a rookie sock? What does it mean to break the world’s record? …and then there was… Continue reading The Puppy Incident
The Pond
It was hot that summer in the desert and she knew the guys would be camping out next to the pond beneath the trees on their property. The breeze coming off the hill and over the water brought the feeling of the cooling sea. Even so the temperature was about 90 degrees. The guys had… Continue reading The Pond