Comments on: My Date With Fabian

By: Laurie Kennedy

Laurie Kennedy — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:32:00 +0000

Amazing. Your date was extraordinary. And with your father no less. Loved the detail about your stockings and what a pig that he ate everything except the orange sherbet. I too watched American Bandstand every DAY religiously but the guy I fell for was James Dean. I used to weep after he died and i bought every movie magazine to help me understand this complicated man. This weekend we’ll have to discuss our various crushes when we were 14. Really enjoyed seeing him sing. He didn’t sing well did he? Much love laurie

By: janegassner

janegassner — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:59:00 +0000

I’m finding that it’s the early days and feelings that are still strongest for me. All that living that followed has kind of murkied the waters.

By: janegassner

janegassner — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:58:00 +0000

My parents always told me that if I wanted something badly enough and was willing to work for it, I’d get it. You know what–they were wrong! And I think that has been one of the hardest lessons of my adulthood.

By: janegassner

janegassner — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:56:00 +0000

And one day I did. But that’s a tale for another time….

By: Generation Above Me

Generation Above Me — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:00:00 +0000

What a great post capturing the excitement of youth. It’s so hard to have that kind of single-focused clarity through the layers that come with moving past mid century. But this is great to see the world through younger eyes. A good travel through time.

By: lisaweldon

lisaweldon — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:38:00 +0000

nope, she made US polish them. The equivalent? I made my kids iron – yes, I said iron – their clothes for church. Just recently I watched a little boy walk down our church aisle totally decked out in his Batman costume. What a smart, smart mom he has!

By: Yvonne Wray

Yvonne Wray — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:28:00 +0000

You WON! Boy I could feel all of the determination that must've gone into pulling that off. The details of your story give such clear images of what it was like to be Janie. I can especially relate to the primal experience at that Fabian concert and the isolated feeling of being a girl geek way before any geeks were cool. Thank you. Yvonne recently posted Three Things My Celebrity Crush Taught Me About Menopause.

By: janegassner

janegassner — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:09:00 +0000

I don’t really remember being nervous, Ellen, so much as excited. Nervous was what I was when I started dating. My mother actually had to push me down the stairs when my date was at the door. Talk about stage fright!