We used to have these huge ant hills in the fields.  They were mounds of dirt, probably about two feet in diameter by one foot in height.  There were literally hundreds of ants crawling on top of each other doing who-knows-what.

My brother and I would pour various substances on them or throw caterpillars in the mound and see what happened to them.

One time we peed on them.  Those were simpler times.

In the Spring of 1997, I played a character named Sarah Brown in the high school musical "Guys and Dolls".  Noel was also in the musical...  along with his friend Todd (the guy who thought I had bad B.O.)

Anyway, I was required to do a few kissing scenes with a guy named Rick Davies, and since Noel and I had been going out for a couple months, he was very uncomfortable with this.

One night, during a live performance, Rick starts moving his lips around and kissing me for real!  I was stunned!  He was a great kisser and had very soft lips (ha, ha... just kidding Noel)

Once the scene ended, Rick started telling everyone about the kiss.  He said it was an accident.  He, apparently, wasn't thinking and it just happened. 

Noel found out and decided to take matters in to his own hands.  He started yelling at Rick.  I wasn't there, so I'm not sure exactly what happened, but I heard that Noel actually said "Three . . . Read More..

As I started to become more social in high school, I spent less time at the tree fort and so did Chris Shea. The fort began to fall into disrepair.

One day I was playing video games with some people at my house. I know for sure that Kevin and Jimmy Territo were there; I can't remember who else was there.

Anyway Kevin heard some screaming coming from the fort and saw that someone had fallen off the fort. There were two kids and the one that was not hurt was asking Kevin to call 911. Kevin asked what happened and apparently, the kid had climbed to the fourth story of the fort and started destroying it. I think Kevin was tempted to not give them the phe.

911 was called and the ambulance arrived shortly thereafter. My parents were out and when they came home there was an ambulance in the driveway. They were freaked out but probably relieved that neither of their kids were hurt. The funny thing is that I didn't even realize any of this was happening. I was just in my own merry . . . Read More..

One of the most fun group games I used to play while growing up in middle school was bomberman for the SNES. This was one of the few games out there that 4 people could simultaneously play together. You had to get a special adapter to play it and my brother and I would rent it at Video Gamer on the way to my cousins Noel and Kevins's house.

We were all the greatest Pals in the world and we would stay up all night playing this together. We would buy Jolt cola and get hyper from it.

On many occasions my Uncle Kirt would come in fuming from lack of sleep because we just could not contain the fun and excitement.

Many times when I was around that age I would envision all 4 of us living in a mansion together and playing video games. But somehow all of us chose women instead of each other. In theory that would have been a unique friendship of 4 cousins living together.

I truly miss playing video games with those three. We seriously need to do that, but now Kevin is in . . . Read More..

I remember back when I was the first one to drive and I could drive to Dan and Dave's house by myself for the first time. We used to all be in my mom's 1991 Blazer which I called the Tijuana Taxi. One time we were driving down the road that Waterford Mott is on.

At the intersection where there is a gas station and an ice cream store we were stopped and someone wanted to turn right out of the gas station. I think I was blocking them or something.

Anyway, Kevin or Dave gave the driver the middle finger, unbeknownst to me. I turned right and got stopped at the next traffic light. I had the windows rolled down and I was off in my own world listening to Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.

Just before I turned left there was much excitement in the car. They told me that the guy pulled up behind me and got out of his car. He walked up to my car and yelled at Dave and Kevin through the open window. Somehow, I was unaware of the whole thing!