by Michael Adams | Mar 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
That summer was fleeting, more so because it would be our last one in San Diego. In a few months, when the orders came down, my dad was to be transferred to Philadelphia. We weren’t happy about it because we loved San Carlos. But we weren’t Californians,...
by Michael Adams | Feb 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
About a month later, my sister Laura woke up when she heard moaning. Paula was sitting up, a restless dark shape in the bed across the room. Laura called out, “Paula… Paula?” After no response Laura turned on the light. Paula was burning up and moaning....
by Michael Adams | Jan 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
I wasn’t a news hound but caught whiffs of the mayhem flashing across the television. Fires- both literal and symbolic were sparked by demonstrators seemingly everywhere. Race riots flared up in city after city as ghettos burned. The US draft calls for...
by Michael Adams | Dec 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Our grandparents, on my father’s side, lived upstate in Santa Rosa, about a ten hour drive. Around Christmas time, we went up for a visit. My Grammy, Lorna, was a tall handsome woman, a real looker when she was younger. She married Ken in the forties after...
by Michael Adams | Nov 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
I saw those movies at a different drive-in on another night when I joined Kevin and his sister Cindy on a night out with their parents later that summer. On the trip back from the concession stand we caught their parents making out in the front seat of...
