Patrick Tillett

It wasn’t much of a tree house, but the time I spent in it, were some of the happiest hours of my entire childhood. A found sheet of plywo...

Thanks everyone for the great Christmas messages, posts and comments. I very much appreciate them all. Now it's time to share some more ...

Many of you are new (or newish) to my childhood stories, please don't think I'm being too hard on my mom in this blog post. If you g...

My dad kept his tube of hair cream and comb in a drawer next to the bathroom sink. His tooth brush and tooth paste were in the medicine cab...

A few of the blogs I follow have had recent posts relating to the first day of school this year for their children.  As many of you are well...

Next day, same exact story. Except this time when the kid came to our house he had his older brother with him. A lot of people from our apar...

When I got up the next morning my mom told me I wasn't going to school. I was very happy to hear that, because my bottom lip was busted ...

I haven't posted anything relating to my childhood lately, so here's another three part bit of insanity! We were living on Rose St...

Do you (or did you) have a mother or grandmother who believed that fish oil was a panacea? That taking a regular dose would prevent you...

I recently read a blog post relating to the torture of childhood swimming lessons.  Of course, almost every "family" or "chil...

If you've been around for a while, you may recall that my sixth year on this earth, was not a very good one. I covered much of that in a...

Do you remember your first feeling of embarrassment? I’m not talking about when you were the only kid in your class who forgot to bring a s...

If you’ve read any of the stuff about my mom you know that she was a seriously troubled woman. In addition, she had a couple of physical pro...

Coming from a very chaotic and crazy household, I guess it was natural that most of my friends would have odd home lives as well. Some wer...

My grandmother owned a small apartment building on Curtis Street in Bellflower. I think there were 6 units. My mom and my older brother an...

Junior high school was not such a good time for me either. My older brother was in the Navy and my youngest brother was put up for adoption...

I had just turned five and I think I was already acting up (or out).  I’m not sure if this "incident" was in response (revenge) ...

Take a second and think about where your head was at while in 5th and 6th grade. Your kids also, if you have any. Playing in little leag...

I'm 7 (or just turned 8) years old here I had my own rifle since I was 6 I shot rabbits, squirrels, and pretty much anything else ...

Here is where the really weird stuff started happening in my life. There may have been other things earlier, but this is one of my first mem...