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Shirley Jo In The Gloaming

I inherited my mom and dad’s snapshot collection, and sometimes I like to look through them. Here, for instance, is my big sister Shirley Jo when she was sixteen years old, in the summer of 194… more →

the pondering pig

The Kid Gets Sick — 2 comments

ponderpig wrote 1 day ago: Ever since I was little, I’ve had this weird feeling that if I ever just let myself go, I … more →

Tags: Ghosts of the past, Sorrow of Life, Childhood, east side kids, grandfather frog, Grief, Rheumatic Fever

Shirley Jo In The Gloaming — 5 comments

ponderpig wrote 5 days ago: I inherited my mom and dad’s snapshot collection, and sometimes I like to look through them. … more →

Tags: Ghosts of the past, oh careless love, today and yesterday, Boulder Creek, Vacations

Crybaby's Birthday Party — 12 comments

ponderpig wrote 1 month ago: One Saturday in 1950, our boss, the shadowy figure known only as ‘Crybaby’, called a me … more →

Tags: Just for grins..., Childhood, Parties, Richmond District

Confessions Of A Junior Sex Fiend — 3 comments

ponderpig wrote 1 month ago: Here’s me and my best friend Jimmy Walker.  It’s the autumn of 1947, we’re sitti … more →

Tags: Just for grins..., Childhood, playland-at-the-beach, Richmond District, San Francisco, sex, Girls, Sheena: Queen Of The Jungle

Balboa Street, 1949

ponderpig wrote 4 months ago: Walking past the concrete blocks, where the empty lot was, the boy looks up and clambers in, and up … more →

Tags: Poetry, balboa street, Childhood, San Francisco

My Playland at the Beach Childhood — 4 comments

ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: My San Francisco childhood resonated to the roar of the roller coaster and the shrieks of thrilling … more →

Tags: playland-at-the-beach, San Francisco

A Walk To John Carter of Mars

ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: I’ve always thought the best plan for writing or making a film is to first decide where you … more →

Tags: A Panoply of Pondering, Books, meaning of things, Joy Of Life, writing, John Carter of Mars

Baby Beatniks Seek Truth Too — 1 comment

ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: And now I’ve started questioning If anything is true… Christopher Newton (1966) All I wa … more →

Tags: 1959-1964. Freaks and Baby Beatniks, today and yesterday, Sorrow of Life, meaning of things, Jack Kerouac, sf state, John Lennon, baby beatniks, Christianity

Life With Father — 1 comment

ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: Sometime in 1946, a touring company of the hit comedy Life With Father breezed through San Francisco … more →

Tags: dwight newton, Life with Father, radio, Theater

The Adventure of the Artificial Rocks — 2 comments

ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: It was great being a little kid in San Francisco out where the ocean loomed gray and green just beyo … more →

Tags: Just for grins..., playland-at-the-beach, sutro park

I come into the world — 1 comment

ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: I was born in San Francisco, February 8, 1942. At U.C. Hospital right above Golden Gate Park. With … more →

Tags: Just for grins..., playland-at-the-beach, San Francisco


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