‘Tales of My Shady Past’ Archives
Amateur Night
I recently read Diablo Cody's memoir Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper thanks to this post for inspiring me to do so. I LOVED this book! I read it cover to cover in less than 24 hours. It made me what to turn back the hands of time (READ: Before I had kids) and be as daring as she was. Ok, so maybe there was a time when I [...]
The Best Friend Part 3
By Spring of 2000 I had moved out of my parents home along with Zman into a cute little 2 bedroom apartment. At this time, I was also pregnant with the Drama Queen. After a month in my new home, I was looking forward to taking a trip to Appleton to pick The Best Friend up from the local jail as he was now going to be a free man. Earlier in [...]
The Visit
Once The Best Friend got over the initial shock of who had traveled all that way to see him he sat down across from me still blown away by the whole thing but happy to see me. We talked about what was going on in my world now that I was a mom. He asked me all about my road trip to come see him and was even more shocked when I told him of my [...]
The Surprise
So here I was. 240 miles from home. Over 4 hours away from my almost 9 month old son. Sitting in my car in the parking lot of a correctional institution. I sat there for a few minutes puffing away on a cigarette or 12 just looking around while my stomach did flips. I took in the sight of the high chain link fence that surrounded the [...]
The Road Trip
Here it was 1999 I was a mom now not just a mom, but a single mom. By the Fall of 1999, Zman was visiting his dad on a regular basis every other weekend which allowed me some free time. It was that first weekend in October of 1999 that I decided to take advantage of that free time. Zman's dad picked him up from daycare. I [...]
