Beth

Thanks so much for the invite. I’ll try to make it by. Big question:Are Pinky and Punky going to be there?Thanks again for thinking of me.C. Frick

What follows is the e-mail I sent to Kelso regarding the upcoming reunion. For those of you not familiar with John Kelso, he’s a columnist for the Austin American Statesman who writes humorous pieces focusing around Austin. In my 11th grade year John Kelso spent a week under the psuedonymn “Clarence Frick” at my high…

Several of you reminded me that “the claw” could also be used on the head. It’s a versatile manuever and always pain inducing! If you’re not a professional, do not use this move!

For some reason (Crone’s Disease), I look older than I am. There were the plus sides when I was a teen like I was never carded and I could always see R rated movies. The downside was that in 8th grade the staff tried to help me find the class I was substituting for and…

In writing about my fun year in Dallas I remembered a story about one of the resulting front yard fights. First though, you have to understand one simple truth about growing up in Dallas – you live and breathe wrestling. Anyone in the late 1970’s who wasn’t familiar with wrestling particularly the wrestling royalty known…

I contacted one of the guys working on the reunion committee yesterday. I had an idea – that John Kelso should be invited to the reunion. You all know I love writing John Kelso. It’s up there with sending letters to the editor about the bicycling menace that exists in our city. Hey, everyone needs…

My 20-year high school reunion is coming up this summer. I was planning on attending when I received a vitriolic e-mail from one of my friends saying she’d rather be dipped in gasoline and set on fire before she went. The e-mail went on at length about how she hated everyone from our school and…

I wish I could remember whatever it was I did in a past life to deserve this one; it must have been hysterical.

A group of us went to lunch this past week and I was reminded again that there’s some special quality I possess that draws all the wrong attention. I’ve never been able to quite put my finger on it because I’m not someone who stands out in a crowd. As a would be suitor once…

I’m having to use the phone a lot these days thanks to our option period coming to an end with the house. I have to say that being on the phone is not something I enjoy. I hate the phone. We only have one in our house and it sits near the kitchen on the…