All Entries in the "Memoirs" Category
The Past Never Goes Away
It’s 7:00 p.m. and we’ve arrived in Arlington at the University of Texas. My sister is about to graduate…
I remember my own college graduation as being anti-climactic. After 7 years of hard work and graduating without any student loans I felt as though there should have been a greater feeling of completion. We went to [...]
Second Grade
I’d been holding my hand up for so long that my arm hurt. I shook it wildly in an effort to get the obviously blind teacher’s attention. I made grunting noises and ooh ooh sounds to further encourage her that I knew the answer, but she wouldn’t call on me.
“Billy, what do you think the [...]
I listened…
On Saturday after Ultimate Frisbee I met up with my family in Denton for some afternoon bowling. I’m not a fan of bowling. It’s a slow sport that requires me to wait for other people and for that slow machine to get my ball back to me and reset the pins. Tap, tap, tap goes [...]
Fear
“Get your hands off of me you two-balled bitch!” Greg screamed at our neighbor Valerie as she pulled him off of her nephew Bobby. Greg and Bobby had been in a heated brawl where many punches were thrown but very few landed.
Valerie’s white Chevy truck was parked in the middle of the gravel road and you [...]
Envy
Sanger, TX had a population of 2,224 people when we first moved there in 1983. There was only 1 gas station, a Dairy Queen and a small grocery store called “Burrus” which was named after it’s owner Sam Burrus. Just north of Denton, Sanger was so small that many people hardly noticed as they traveled [...]
Desperate
My sister sat proudly on my real dad’s shoulders. She had told him that her feet were hurting her and so he picked her up and carried her. After a while my feet hurt too and I complained non-stop. “My feet hurt so baaaad…” I whined and whined.
Our day finally ended and I remember my [...]
The Pink Foot
I could hear the Ice Cream truck right outside our apartment. My mom was always quick to grab her purse and dig out some change for us to get ice cream. She always got a Banana Fudge Bomb Pop and me and my sisters would get either a Pink Foot or a Push-pop.
One day I [...]
Michael Jackson, Prince, Queer, Fag…
I lie awake in bed most mornings and that is when I find my brain is at the peak of it’s creativity. There are no distractions. My room consists of nothing more than a bed, a tall chest of drawers and a small box with a round fan sitting on top. The light shines through [...]
An Introduction the the world of Appaloosas and Pornography
“Ranch Hand needed at the Bar-B Ranch…”
My parents found the classified ad in the Sanger Courier. I don’t remember the circumstances leading up to me getting a job at that age, I just remember that my parents took me to the small 114 acre ranch that was practically treeless and adjacent to I-35. There was [...]
The Injustice of it All…
“Pow!” I felt his fist hit my face and for a few seconds everything was black. It came out of know where after a simple shove and a few heated words.
“Stop that! Break it up!” A teacher shouted and the fight was over before it began.
I didn’t understand what had happened. School hadn’t started yet [...]
“Honey, Eddie is Office Depot, not Home Depot…”
“Get me a flat head screw driver from the garage.” It was more of a command and not a request. I ran to the garage and looked frantically through the unorganized tools. I’d look and look and my heart would race, if I couldn’t find it, I knew I’d be the one to blame.
“I can’t” [...]
“The Feel Good Memoir of the Year…”
When I put all of these stories together that I am writing about my life, I hope that it is an uplifting and inspiring tale – not one that sends people into depression.
My life has been crazy, but everyone has their story, some are just more dramatic than others.
What I do want to emphasize is [...]