Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Weird History"
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We must be the same age! I grew up in Palo Alto, California and a lot of my friends went in on the ground floor of companies like Apple, Microsoft, google, etc...
I didn't, I wanted to be an artist and ended up in Texas. It turned out great!! I was so happy to have my own place, friends, dates, etc. MTV was new and influenced fashion, I went to Los Angeles with my sound engineer husband and got into the whole scene, met a bunch of exciting people...I never thought about the future, just had so much fun!!! Still do, actually.
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@williamfeilhauer
Thank you so much for your comment! It was an astonishing lovely small town when I was young, Palo Alto was just a University town, my mom for for Stanford Hospital and my dad walked a few blocks every morning to the train station to go to San Francisco for work. He started working at around 10 or 11 in Boston for a record company (I don't know which one) and ran errands, deliveries and records to radio stations...he learned to speak Yiddish, because his bosses were from the old country. His mom was French and from Canada, but left when he was very young. He rarely saw her, but apparently, she had a thing for boxers (!), and dated a famous one for awhile, who was very kind to the abandoned boy who had no family. He was put in a boarding school and lied about his age somehow to become a sailor in WW2. I was always completely fascinated how a man with so much against him, managed to become a sophisticated "city man" who retired as a Vice President for a big bank! I want to portray that time because it vanished so fast and completely at the advent of the computer age. Now, things are instant, which can be a wonderful thing, especially in medicine, but I also miss the long, quiet mornings and deep summer nights where life wasn't an instant video. Its probably because I'm getting old, and look back with more nostalgia than I should, but somehow, I hope others will get an idea of how life in Palo Alto, before it became a millionaire only place, was just a peaceful university town of families....I don't know if anyone will like it, but I'll write it anyway...thank you so much for being kind and I truly think you need to write a book about your experiences as well. I KNOW they would interest so many, and Pamela Des Barre had a best seller just writing about being a groupie in LA in the 60s! She lived with Frank Zappa for awhile, was in a band, lived with Don Johnson before Miami Vice. A BEST SELLER! I Know you have great stories, I want to read them too, at least think about it. If you don't like to physically write you can record yourself going over memories, even get someone to type it up for you. Merry Christmas and be safe this New Year!!!
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I grew up in the early 60s and had the absolute worst possible diet in history for most of my life. My mother worked nights at a very busy hospital so she did NOT cook, she barely slept! I don't blame her, but we ate hideous concoctions we mixed up ourselves, takeout and millions of Swansons TV dinners...
At 60, I was tired of being sick for most of my life, overweight and high blood pressured...Finally, not wanting to croak from heart failure, I radically changed my life and ate only high protein foods and no sugar. I lost tons of weight and started running, because I could.
Three years later, I'm off all meds, lightweight and healthy as I can possibly be, considering all the damage I inflicted on myself over the years. It's been the best thing I ever did, especially since it influenced my overweight, ill husband to stop most of his bad habits. We both started making creative dishes that were really good and good for us. I hope anyone who sees this will never think they are too old to change, we are really enjoying life now, because we aren't downing tons of meds, feel good and get outside every single day. I run 6 to 8 miles a day, and love it. What we eat, really makes or breaks us!!
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