Jill Geaslen, My First Girlfriend
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
As a bit of a chubby little whippersnapper and obnoxious twelve-year old, I hadn’t yet had an official ‘girlfriend’ as I moved into the summer of 1984. You can bet your bottom dollar that I liked girls – I had since kindergarten – but I lacked the gumption and self-confidence to ask any of them to ‘go’ with me. However, this all changed when I went to Camp Woodland Altars during the summer following my sixth grade year. Actually, it was relatively easy to find girls here. Read the rest of this entry »
It has become a virtual no-brainer that when I get the chance to meet an Oscar winner, I’m going to go ahead and do it. And the Academy really liked actress Celeste Holm. Three times she was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role: for Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), Come to the Table (1949), and All About Eve (1950). She was only the winner in the first film – thanks to her role as fashion editor Anne Dettrey opposite actor Gregory Peck. The chance to meet her came at the Hollywood Show on Saturday, October 9, 2010. 
Concerned about the liklihood of over-eating on a cruise ship, I went ahead and skipped breakfast altogether on the morning of Tuesday, February 8, 2011. The ship was beginning the process of docking in Key West, Florida that morning as I woke up, and by the time Mom & Bob went to eat and I got up and ready, it was time to de-board for our first land stop of the voyage. I hadn’t been to Key West since 
I really can’t offer much of a good reason for spending $50 on getting a signed photo plus and picture taken with 70s supermodel Cheryl Tiegs. It’s not like she’s done all that much in the world of entertainment. In fact, among the few shows on which she’s appeared, she was merely playing herself on episodes of Moonlighting and Just Shoot Me. But the name sticks out as a rather iconic emblem of beauty in the 1970’s – the decade that I come from – so I just felt I had to catch her at the Chiller Show in Parsippany, New Jersey, on Saturday, October 30, 2010. (I had actually bypassed her at the Hollywood Show earlier that