Terry Tales

Rose Hills

https://youtu.be/kRHZ_O0mXN0
The Rings

The Rings

I took off the ring that Billy and I wore since he proposed to me in our hotel room in Montreal when we went to the Black and Blue Party in 1997. They were a simple pair of unpolished silver bands. I’d been wearing Billy’s, plus another one he also wore that he found and really liked on the Venice boardwalk. Billy is still wearing mine.
The Couch

The Couch

The office of our friend Jimmey was in a writer’s bungalow in the back of the Fox lot, tucked away beyond the prop ...
Thirty years, with and without

Thirty years, with and without

Thirty years ago today, I met Bill Ledbetter at a “party,” one where we connected inside my first five minutes of ...
My dogs

My dogs

Stephen and Eddie and my showsStephenTwo dudes in my truckThe four of us on a desert hikeEddie and Jim ...
The Back Stairs

The Back Stairs

If I close the door at the bottom of the steep service stairs that lead from the bedrooms to the kitchen, it ...
A View from 25H

A View from 25H

I looked at eight apartments on my househunting trip to NYC when I was about to relocate there in the earliest ...
Eddie, Our Worrier

Eddie, Our Worrier

When I landed In NYC mid-afternoon yesterday, I listened to the dire voicemail from the vet, so when the car ...
Circus Geek

Circus Geek

It was pure comedy gold when my face kissed the sidewalk on Chambers St in front of an audience the size of an ...
Goodbye, Stephen

Goodbye, Stephen

I’m not sure Stephen and I even liked each other very much when we first met. My great friend Robyn Zeiger, ...

Ludlow

They’ve called Ludlow a ghost town ever since Interstate-40 came along and destroyed its once-needed Route 66 ...

The Fob

I went to my first estate sale on Saturday, and I discovered they’re sad; someone’s life with dangling white price ...