Comment from Jacqueline M Franklin

Excellent

Hi, Jay...

_ As always, a smooth, well written chapter.
_ I truly am a 'country girl,' because I hate, hate, hated leaving Ohio at 10-yrs-old to grow in California.
_ My teenage years were the 60s, which as you know is the 'Hippie Dippie' tragic era filled with wacky tabacky and LSD. UGH!
_ Give me a wagon full of hay, and let's go for hayride so we can Square Dance! (*<*)

Cheers & Blessings
Keep Smilin'... Jax (*:*)

 Comment Written 18-Aug-2015

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reply by the author on 18-Aug-2015

I'm with you at that, Jax. I'll take a hayride at 76, but I'm sure I would have scoffed at you in 1960.

reply by Jacqueline M Franklin on 18-Aug-2015

Our dad was really strict. My dates were big brother approved OR I didn't go.

Never was allowed to go to parties for fear we'd get slipped drugs. So I had a very close circle of girlfriends, and we just went back and forth to each others house.

At the time, I thought my dad was so mean, and of course, dumb as a stick.

LOL.... Turns out, as time went on. his mean was full of love, and damn, he wasn't nearly as dumb as thought. (*>*)

Comment from Sasha

Excellent

I love the comparison of the 'then' and the 'now'. I was born in 1945 so viewed the beat era but never really participated. Being raised in an insane, dysfunctional (I really hate that word) family of the late 40's I should be a New York Times Best Seller by now. My world was (and occasionally is) beset with total, incomprehensible insanity suposidly providing me with ample subject matter to write about. Instead, I didn't start writing until after the invention of the computer and didn't learn how to turn one on until 2002, I spent ten years just learning how to spell and punctuate. Ah, life can be a bitch and bite you in the ass no matter how dysfunctional your life has been. I really enjoyed reading this. I just love your style and approach to everything you write. Terrific work with this one.

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 Comment Written 18-Aug-2015

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reply by the author on 18-Aug-2015

Thanks for reading this, Valerie. I'm so happy you enjoyed it and took something away from it to connect with your tumultuous past.

reply by Sasha on 18-Aug-2015

Yes, tumultuous does have a better ring to it than 'dysfunctional'...I'll have to remember that.

Comment from mermaids

Excellent

I enjoyed reading about your life in San Francisco and listening to the beat poets. It was a different era then. I also enjoyed reading your comparison to the old days of typewriters and the modern age of computers. The tools of the writing life have changed and one has to be computer literate in today's writing life.

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 Comment Written 18-Aug-2015

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reply by the author on 18-Aug-2015

Many thanks, mermaids. I'm glad you enjoyed reading this chapter.