Memoir Archives - Page 7 of 17 - CHRISSIE ANDERSON PETERS

Strange Days Indeed

Mar 11, 2024 | Memoir, Music, Travel

After a week on the 80s Cruise, I’m not sure anything seems as strange as it typically does. On Pop Icon night, for example, there were seven Madonnas lined up in a row, all from different stages of her career. There were two Chers from the “Turn Back Time” video, one...

Chiefs Win in Yesterday’s Division-Winning Football Game – Multiple Points of View

Feb 19, 2024 | Memoir

Concession Sales Person: Too bad we don’t sell humility and grace – that taunting thing was just not pretty! Refs: Taunting might be a silly call, but you just got caught doing it on national television, so you forced us to call it! Zay Flowers (Baltimore Wide...

Noah Spencer

Feb 15, 2024 | Memoir, Music

When my friend Kandy Kiser Howlett and I saw Noah Spencer as part of the Holiday Showcase at The Paramount before Christmas, I was impressed with the young man. So impressed that I’ve been looking for opportunities to catch him doing his own gig ever since. I thought...

Miracles

Jan 27, 2024 | Memoir

I’ve never been interested in running a 5K. I’ve never been interested in running anything. Because I’m predisposed to asthma attacks and have been my entire life. Remember gym class in school when you had to run the 600-yard dash? The 80s were hell with the...

Snow Days

Jan 15, 2024 | Memoir

We rarely have a real snow day, anymore. But today, one materialized. Of course it did. It’s an inconvenience because we’re trying to leave for Chicago tomorrow morning and today was a holiday, so we couldn’t get anything done in terms of going to the bank or doing a...

New Years Day

Jan 2, 2024 | Memoir

I spent the better part of New Year’s Day organizing. It’s a pipedream I often indulge in at the beginning of a new year. Get your life in order, Chrissie. Things are in disarray. There’s clutter. There’s no space for creating, for laying out stuff to see what’s there...