Category Archives: youth

PROM QUEENS CRY by Peter Nolan Smith

May 18, 2013 – 8:49 pm

Few loves are more true than that of a high school sweetheart. Sophomore sessions of kissing on sofa were upgraded to petting during junior year and pledges of eternal devotion for the final year of high school. I was lucky enough to find myself in such a situation in the Spring of 1970. Kyla Rotta […]

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TAKE ME by Peter Nolan Smith

May 2, 2013 – 7:48 pm

The summer of 1972. Seal Beach south of LA. My college friend and I were staying at his cousin’s beach house. We liked drinking in the dive bar on the PCH. Fish swan underneath a sheet of glass. We thought that was cool. Both of us were 19. Two nights before out departure for San […]

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Napa Redux

April 23, 2013 – 8:32 pm

In the summer 1971 my friend Peter and I hitchhiked across the Golden Gate Park up into Napa. We stopped at a winery. A keg of red was shaded by an oak tree. Tin cups lay on a battered wooden table.The midday sun was strong. Peter and I drank our fill and some more before […]

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You Bet I Would AVA GARDNER

March 2, 2013 – 2:32 pm

In Spring of 1968 my older brother started dating Ava Farrell. The blonde cheerleader was best friend’s with my girlfriend, Kyla Rolla. My next door neighbor was going out with Brenda Estes, another cheerleader at my hometown’s high school. Chuckie Manzi, my older brother, and I were going to all-boy Catholic schools. We wore thick […]

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Split Sky

September 28, 2012 – 9:16 pm

At the age of ten I sat on our roof during a summer electrical storm with my older brother. The sky looked like the beginning of THE WIZARD OF OZ. Unlike Kansas Boston rarely offered such a dramatic show of weather. My father yelled for us to come inside. We thought we knew better and […]

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