Girlhood Crush!

A little about me:  My name is Jill Summerfield, I'm 29 years old, newly married, and has just achieved my dream of running my own law firm.  Its small but its just beginning, who knows what the future will bring?

My husband, David, is my childhood sweetheart (well, one of them) and the man who got me started thinking seriously about law as a career.  I remain still fairly close with my best friend from high school, Debbie, or as she likes to be called these days, Wind-Passer or no, wait, Wind-Dancer.  (I think that's right.)  We are as close as can be expected with the fact that she lives across the Pacific in Hawaii and I live and work in the beautiful San Francisco.  She works for money in a restaurant and paints, smokes, and who knows what else by night.  I believe she is very talented and just wish she would do more with her life...this is a source of major contention and disagreement between both of us as to what "more in life" really means, and basically, has been since we were teenagers!

When all is said and done, I feel as if Debbie is more a sister than a friend and her involvement in my life is without question.

Debbie and I bonded when we were girls together over our mutual love of music, especially The Beatles.  She patiently stood by while I gushed over the amazing John Lennon and, for that matter, still have the same adoring affections for the man to this day.  Although my obsession has tamed a bit since my youth, I still find myself pulling out my old records and listening to such favorites as "All You Need is Love", "Yesterday", and "Because" especially during moments of stress.

All You Need Is Love

Although the divorce and subsequent marriage of John Lennon to Yoko Ono was shocking, to say the least, I really admire and believe in their message of "Give Peace a Chance" and "Make Love, Not War".  I see these truths as vital to the change we need to make in the world, starting with ourselves first and then allowing that to move outwards.

And, then the shocking news came....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwPI_aalZ8Q

Jill Summerfield is a character from the play, "Loving John Lennon" written by Darlene Ensor which will be read at Paschal Winery on February 28th and March 1st at 7 pm.  The play is directed by Michael Meyer and stars Brittany Bosworth, McKenzie Baratta, Lia Dugal, Kristen Lorange, Diane Nichols, and Becky Durango.  The show includes musical guest, Chiron O'Keefe.  Ten Dollars admission fee at the door.

Loving John Lennon Event Invite

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Meet Penny Sullivan

Hi! I'm Penny Sullivan and I am 30 years old.  Growing up, I was raised in a very wealthy family, good schools, summer camps, everything I could possibly want, except my daddy wasn't around much, away on business as it always was (though what "business" he could possibly attend to, is beyond me).  My mother, God bless her, due to his absence was absent herself, addicted to sleeping pills and whatever booze she could get her hands on.  I guess that's where I got my crutch, as it were.

So there I was, left to my own devices, hungry for love and seeking approval, and not finding it at home, I went out to the wide world looking for it, into the arms of men, their drugs, whatever they offered, or wanted.  Being the eighties, cocaine was the drug of choice, however, trying it once (or twice) I quickly realized it wasn't for me.  But, the drink, well, that was a different story.

When I drink, I forget the pain, rather felt nothing, finally felt...free, beautifully numb yet strangely alive.

On my 17th birthday, I met Jason, who was 21 at the time ( I looked older than I was) and was allowed into all the bars.  (And even though I was younger than 21, the Sam the bartender let me in because I let him feel me up and gave him BJs whenever he wanted, anything for approval, right?)

But, Jason was different, or so I thought, with sparkling blue eyes, a good college boy home for the summer, a dream come true in my father's eyes.  But, just as in Grease, it was only "Summer lovin" and it happened so fast.  He went back to his prep school girlfriend and decided not to have anything to do with the baby in my belly.  Even my "good Catholic parents" didn't want to have anything to do with my shameful act so I was forced to move out, first into a homeless shelter, then bounced around from friends houses to random boys' houses as "house-keeper", hoping it would lead to more, a father for my daughter, Laura, and someone to love me after all.  But, no one fit the bill, or wanted to, wanted me.

When Laura was 6, I met Leon, at a bar, of course.  We moved in together, became lovers due to our mutual affection for the bottle, as well as I became his personal punching bag.  I have tried to leave many times, to get a better life, for Laura mostly, but can never seem to find my way out of it entirely, with numerous broken promises to my daughter along the way.  I guess that's another thing I've failed at.

Eventually though, my life-style choices caught up with me, after landing in jail for association with Leon, and deciding once and for all, that I was a dead-beat mom in no way deserving of Laura, so I gave up legal right to her.  She ended up in a foster care somewhere and I spent many of my days, in jail.

Finally, began the slow process to drying up, finding recovery, and healing, at last acceptance and approval from my higher power.

Come hear more of my story on Monday, October 27th at the Playwright's Atelier at the Ashland
Public Library in the Gresham Room at 7 pm.   Free to the public!

https://www.facebook.com/events/960142974002564/?notif_t=plan_user_invited

Controller: Or How My Life Went Out of Control!

Hi, my name is Liza and I am a woman in my mid-twenties, a young, very healthy woman in my twenties with some very very basic needs that are currently not being met because...

I feel responsible for the demise of my parents' crumbling marriage, that it is partly my fault for not holding up my end of the bargain as I promised I would.  I feel guilty, as the psychologists would say, for having my own need to develop as an individual apart from my parents.

Thus, I feel the need to make it up to them by giving my dad a place to stay at my house and doing what I can to stop the enmity between them; to save their marriage and to hopefully reestablish my struggling and very hungry libido.

Things come to a head (LOL! She said "head), when I can't even get my own father to come to his mother-in-law's funeral which causes even more division between my folks.  After weeks of trying, I am at my wit's end, heightened even more so by the long absence of personal time with my boyfriend, Jeff (and by personal time, I mean...).

I am feeling very frustrated and in need of a good roll in the...consequently unable to think clearly to plan a good attack.

Enter Jeff, my wonderfully faithful boyfriend with a brilliant plan that just might work!  To find out what, come and see this Saturday & Sunday, October 19 & 20, at Paschal Winery.  See link below for more information!

https://www.facebook.com/events/578985095472463/?ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=calendar