Forbidden Fruits by Ricky

Fruits I forbid myself: all fermented fruit products and any spoiled or rotten fruits. And while we are on the subject of forbidden I forbid myself from eating certain vegetables: asparagus, yellow squash, yellow wax beans, eggplant, and any other vegetable that I cannot pronounce or spell its name.

© 21 April 2014

I was born in June of 1948 in Los Angeles, living first in Lawndale and then in Redondo Beach. Just prior to turning 8 years old in 1956, I began living with my grandparents on their farm in Isanti County, Minnesota for two years during which time my parents divorced.

When united with my mother and stepfather two years later in 1958, I lived first at Emerald Bay and then at South Lake Tahoe, California, graduating from South Tahoe High School in 1966. After three tours of duty with the Air Force, I moved to Denver, Colorado where I lived with my wife and four children until her passing away from complications of breast cancer four days after the 9-11 terrorist attack.

I came out as a gay man in the summer of 2010. I find writing these memories to be therapeutic.

My story blog is TheTahoeBoy.Blogspot.com