This is my cute and true love, Gregory, in his senior picture at age 17. Gazing at this makes me so happy — you have no idea. This is my honey when he was but a wee preppie buck living just outside of Boston. He is so Mark Ratner from “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”, I can scarcely stand it.
Looking at this picture reminds me of why I always always always tell my girls, “Marry a geek! They make the best husbands and the best friends and the best traveling companions. They are the interesting ones and the smart ones and the ones who will be eager to explore the world with you. They don’t peak in high school and go directly downhill from there, like the captain of the football team and the homecoming king do; they peak after 40 — and then just keep getting better. Do not make the mistake of marrying a good dancer — they will break your heart every time. Find the guy in the corner wearing a cardigan with his nose in a book. They are are the ones who will hold you when you are sad and kiss away your tears. They are the ones who will love you forever.”
Gottddamnit, I realize I am sickening, but I just can’t help it.
I am one starry-eyed, lovesick trollop…and the luckiest girl in the world.


About muffybolding
Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.
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