I was sitting here in my living room killing time and decided to google my last name or rather my maiden name.

Two out of my 3 three brothers showed up sorta frequently. My younger brother has done some acting, modeling and is now a steadicam operator for movies and tv. He has several listings related mostly to his camera work. My older brother blogs about gurus and stuff. We were raised Catholic and I'm raising my children as Christian so where the inclination to worship Kali etc came from I will never know. Though my youngest brother who doesn't show up on google, also went the way of Hare Krishna for a time.

I am reading some of the stuff on my older brother and find an entire group who claim to debunk all my brother has to blog about. I found this funky "article" written years ago when my bro lived in Northern Cal. My oh my what big words they all used. Socialogical neurotranmitters. Fake projection of duality in the world. HUH? It was all very surreal. Apparently my brother's "outing" of fake gurus pisses some people off. Hmmmmmmmm, ok. I guess. I remember my brother as being quite smart yet lacking a basic self-confidence. We shared that lack.

My parents did the best they could with what they had but growing up in the 60's and 70's wasn't all Brady Bunch. They liked to compare us, the older 2 children of 4.

We had(still have) nothing in common but that did not stop my mom from trying the old, "Why can't you get good like your brother/sister?" It varied which of us had higher grades depending on whether we were in junior high or high school. My brother was into nature and snakes. He caught snakes and kept them as pets which encouraged my younger brothers to do the same.

Myself, I have nothing against snakes. I'm not scared of them nor do I love them. I was the girl caught in the "snake house". I was taking a shower one day when I was 16yo. It was 6a.m. and I was half-awake. Imagine my surprise when a black snake "popped" out of the drain at me. I became a girl quickly and screamed my head off. Thing scared 5 years off my life. I jumped out of the shower, grabbed a towel and ran screaming into my younger brothers' room. "There's a freakin' snake in the shower!!!!!! GET IT OUT!"

Later, years later, my mother used this story to amuse her friends. You see, the day before my 11yo brother was giving his snake a "bath" in the bathroom sink. Well, Mr. Snake decided to go tourist down the drain. My bro could not find him and Mom figured there was a new snake in the sewer system. WRONG. Mr. Snake visited me after a tour of our house's plumbing early the next morning. This story never failed to crack my mother up. HA! I got my brother back .....eventually. I'll never tell how though, muahahahaha.

Back to the google thing. My older brother apparently is "corrupted" in his opinions on false gurus.

Back in 1978 I never thought my brother would be somewhat "infamous". Isn't this a weird world? We did not even have cordless phones back then let alone an internet. Makes ya think, doesn't it?
Hare Krishna
Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna
Hare Hare...................

My younger brothers were constantly doing things that upset me. Like the time they got into my dresser drawer found my black inkpad and fingerprinted my wall. Yup. A wall of finger and hand prints.

Once again, my mother found this amusing. I did not. I think I was 12 or 13. I insisted on a lock for my door to keep the hyperactive brats out of my stuff. Surprise! My dad put a lock on my door.

There was another time I was taking a shower and when I got out, there was a huge Z across the steamed up mirror. Zorro? Hardly. Another brother trick. Again, my mom cracked up. I really did not get along with my mom when I was a teenager.

I was in the shower when I was 15. All of a sudden I felt a cool breeze.........then the shower curtain whipped back. Much to my astonishment there were 5 10 year old boys staring at my nekked body. I screamed like a banshee, "GET OUT NOW!!!!!!!" Younger bro number 1 had sold me for $.25 a "view". Needless to say, those quarters were mine, plus I was awarded his allowance as "damages".

These 10 yos are now their 30's. Let's hope they forgot all about this "fun" incident.

I used to beg my mother to send me to boarding school just to get away from my brothers. She said it was too expensive. What I should have answered was, "My therapy will cost you a lot more." I always think of good comebacks AFTER I need them. Don't you hate that?

When I was about 18 or 19 my brothers, the younger ones, came to me one day. Turning red and blushing they asked me to explain sex to them. Apparently my mother tried to bring this subject up but my bros ran from the room. LMAO! My mother NEVER ever tried to explain sex to me! She showed them my Human Sexuality book. The book had pictures of hermaphrodites and abberant actions. No wonder they ran from the room and know I knew where my textbook went. Do you think my mom learned anything new from my book?

When my bros were 5 and 7 we would make forts together. I was 12. We lived in a semi-wooded area and would play war. I was ALWAYS the general. They were always non-coms. Age hath its privileges. Snerk. When we got heavy snow all four if us, even the oh-so-cool older bro, would make snow tunnels and snow caves. It was so much fun. I have to say my childhood was pretty great except for the snake, fingerprint times.

I miss that time now and again. We have so little in common now and since my mom died we don't keep in touch. My mother kept us up on each other. It was a different era.

I'd go play from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and my mother never had to worry. If I was doing something wrong, some neighbor or brother would narc me out. We were safe. Most of the moms stayed home and child abductions just weren't heard of. I'm glad I got to grow up in those days.

Before MTV and before they were allowed to even say "hell" on TV. I know, this sounds so impossible to believe........they were good times and I thank God I had a loving family even if they were snake-obsessed.