It was May of 2004, and my company sent me to an industry meeting in Chicago. I was the only one from our company that attended, and I was quite sure that I wouldn’t see anyone else that I knew at the meeting. That, combined with the simple fact that I ha...
It was August of 1988. I had owned a muscle car for a few years. Anyone who has ever had the joy of owning one knows that, aside from boats, there isn’t much that can suck up your money faster. Mine had been doing just that, but by that summer it looked s...
Part Two. I had told Roger that I’d leave the garage door open so they could park in the garage. I saw them pull into the driveway and then went to the door and closed the garage door behind them. Camilla jumped out of the car, ran up to me, and gave me a...
It was December of 1991 and time for my company’s annual Christmas Party. Previous parties had been held at a hotel but the recession had beat our company up pretty bad, so the boss decided to have it in our office. In years past we’d have a DJ playing mu...
It was August of 2002. I think it was one of those situations where a volunteer was requested, everyone else took one step backward, and I was ‘it.’ I had to meet an expedited freight shipment at our warehouse in the middle of the night, unload the truck,...
It was August of 1981. Kelly had returned to start her senior year of university. At one of the buildings where she was wrapping up registration, a sheet of paper hanging on the job bulletin board caught her eye. It said something to the effect of ‘Urgent...
It was October of 1979, the weekend before Halloween. Back then, Halloween wasn’t the massive holiday it has grown into now. Costumes, and parties, were both fairly lame. I was visiting Kelly at college for the weekend. Her roommate, Tricia, had stayed in...
It was a Saturday night in July of 1979. Kelly was home for the summer from college, having completed her freshman year. She was working as many hours as she could at the deli/bakery where she’d been working since high school. As a result, it was a challe...
It was the beginning of May 1979. The previous winter had been one of Wisconsin’s worst ever and we were all sick of the cold. Temperatures finally got hot for the first time that year, breaking eighty degrees. Kelly was attending college in Milwaukee. He...
We were coming up to Independence Day in 2001. We took a two-week vacation along with our good friends Bob and Lisa. We had planned the vacation for a few months. I decided to surprise Kelly and the others when I traded our Class C motorhome for a larger,...
It was July of 1994. Kelly and I were thirty-four and each had heard just passing comments at work, in the context of something funny, about a nude beach supposedly not terribly far from our house. It caught our attention but nothing specific was shared a...
It was early in October of 1977. Kelly and I were high school seniors. Our school celebrated homecoming for an entire week. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday after school we had crazy contests like tricycle races and stuffing a Volkswagen (for which the puny...
It was the end of January 1989. I had been out of town the weekend a few weeks previous. Kelly had spent much of that weekend with our close friends Patrick and Yvonne. They had a wild sex-fueled Saturday, the stories of which no one shared with me. Kelly...
It was June of 1991. Not too far from where we lived there was a big annual weekend festival with free concerts. Kelly found out that the headlining act for Saturday night was one of her favorite heavy metal ‘hair’ bands from the 1980s. We arrived early a...
It was the weekend before Mardi Gras in 1999. Let me tell you how this started: I blame Joe Francis, the guy behind Girls Gone Wild (GGW). It was several months prior to Mardi Gras when Kelly and I saw some GGW ads on TV. Honestly, it was right up our all...
