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Not So Super Sam’s

On the morning of Saturday, Sept. 10, 1977, there was hell to pay. And Dad let me know it in no uncertain terms. Energy was high the night before, when I drove Mom’s car—the Dartillac—to the big high...

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Ski Day

“I cried about Christmas a while ago…” So begins the diary entry for Dec. 22, 1977, written in cramped, tiny handwriting with a blue-black fountain pen. It was two days before the school holiday break,...

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Rings (Part 2)

[This is the last of a two-part post.] The morning of Dec. 31, 1977, Kim’s cousin Ginny called, asking if I could give her a ride to Wayzata Bay shopping center. That, like, never happened before....

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Moon Shadows

When I listened to radio songs as a preteen, I wasn’t just groovin’ to tunes and spacing out. I was always creating stories from those songs. Case in point: Cat Stevens’ “Moonshadow.” After lamenting...

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He Blew His Mind Out in a Car

“Well,” my first thought was, “There goes Germany.” Someone ran toward the Dartillac and opened the door to let me out. I was shaky and on the verge of tears. Then I saw the pickup truck I’d hit. It...

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Pilgrimage (Part 1)

[This is first of a two-part post.] Post-drug bust, I was briefly incarcerated. Which meant grounded at home. Or so the diary seems to say. June 14, 1978’s spare entry: “Wednesday. Did nothing. See?”...

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Riveting at Table 5

[Photo credit: Glass Factory Worker Rob Kidd 1911—NARA—Wikimedia Commons]“Hi! My new name is #12859!” Wednesday, July 19, 1978: I’d passed the interviews, physical and, along with fellow post-high...

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Happy Campers III (Part 1)

[First of a two-part post] When you have a ticket to paradise, you’d damn well better make sure you catch your ride. Me? I blew it. I didn’t get on the bus, so I had to get on the bus. Sunday, July 30,...

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Time Passages

It all made sense.  The plan: Four years at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus, straight through. Living at home, commuting with Dad, score the sheepskin, then … get a job. At least, that...

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Briarwood

At what point does rumination become a thicket, wherein you’re tangled in your own thoughts and unable to move forward? And at what point does over-examination of the past become navel-gazing,...

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The Year That Changed My Life (Part 2)

[This is the second of a multi-part post.] In 1989, I finished the draft of my first screenplay. Then I went to England to do research toward a rewrite. I was living two different lives. Primary life:...

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