I was oversexed before I could talk. Playing “tent” under my mother’s dress, I’d stare at a “Ring Around The Rosy” coloring book for hours, trying to picture what the little girls…
1956 – Elvis
With rock ‘n’ roll in its infancy, radio was pumping out the Carvel soft ice cream music of Perry Como, Patty Page and the Lemon Sisters. It’s hard to put into words the culture sh…
1962 – The Formative Years
Everything was black & white, and we were ‘white’….and that was part of the problem. On our new color television, as I entered high school, Walter Cronkite tried to explain why Jam…
1963 – JFK Assassination
The unreality of it all continued through a Thanksgiving weekend that wasn’t. A droopy faced vice-president raised his right hand as we held each other’s. Then, just as the enormit…
1963 – Playing The Village
Monday was “Hootenanny” night in The Village. Since none of us were old enough to drink, there were ‘coffee houses’ lining the streets of Bleecker and MacDougal that catered to the…
1964 – The Beatles Arrive
With the spotlight no longer in our eyes we looked for someplace to run and returned to our English womb and the naive energy of the working class ‘Fab Four.’ Practically overnight…
1965 – Breasts
I love large breasts and big nipples. I’m not sure why. As a matter of fact I’m not sure why most men find breasts so exciting. I’ve heard it suggested that men associate the breas…
1967 – It’s Getting Hairy Out There
And the world was changing. After sending Raquel Welch on a “Fantastic Voyage,” Walt Disney died, a month before the astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee were burned alive on the…
1967 – Sex Scene
Borrowing one of the brother’s rooms, this would not be lovemaking but compulsion. For a year I had visions of Charlotte naked. Her forbidden green eyes now laced with passion (and…
1967 – Vietnam, Politics & Pop Culture
It was “A Happening” when more than 50,000 marchers arrived at the Lincoln Memorial suggesting “All You Need Is Love” as they moved across the Memorial Bridge to the Pentagon, wher…
1968 – Chicago Democratic Nat’l. Convention
We’d seen blood soaked images of defenseless protestors and rioting police before, but this wasn’t black and white… it was white on white… in the center of America’s heartland. On…
1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. Gunned Down
In Chicago, 5,000 federal troops were dispatched to quell the sniping gunfire, street fighting and raging fires. Five died in Baltimore where Governor Spiro Agnew ordered 6,000 Nat…
