Just the Facts with Kathleen Gallagher

By Kathleen Gallagher

I admit it, I joined a Drum and Bugle Corp when I was a teenager. We were called The  Fire-lites.  A bunch of my girlfriends and I, really signed up to be near the cute drum major, Alfonso. We had so much fun, and even marched down Fifth Ave in New York City.  When we learned the routines, we really got involved in making our squad the best. We twirled our flags and rifles around like pros. I loved the bus rides home the most. I got to sit next to Alfonso.

My ideal vacation is to spend a week on The Outer Banks in North Carolina with my three adorable grandsons, Cole, Lance, and Chase.  The best time is when we read stories before bed.  It’s when the giggle monsters come out to play.

    

I love the seventies, and miss the disco ball and dancing all night to the Bee Gees music.  Better yet, I love Rocky and Saturday Night Fever.

Our backyard has no grass. My husband had an idea to create a serene place to relax and enjoy nature. He covered the whole area with rocks, pebbles, and winding trails. There are evergreens, flowers, birdhouses ,and a fountain. I’m not even sure what else.  Each year he adds something different and we have a whole new design.  It’s really pretty, and it keeps him out of the kitchen. When he brings home a garden gnome, I’ll faint.

I’m a slob when I cook. I make believe I’m in the kitchen of The Iron Chef Stadium. Leave me alone with a bunch of herbs, garlic, lemon, olive oil and  white wine and I’ll whip up a dish. Oh, I need some chicken or fish, too.

I have tried almost every frizz removing product on the market.  I finally found Moroccan oil I love and it I works wonders. I better stock up on it, just in case the company goes out of business.

I went to three out of the four Bon Jovi concerts in the New Meadowlands last summer. I don’t go overboard, do I?

         
                Nothing makes me happier then a weekend spent with my husband, children, and  my grandsons.

        

For Better or Worse ~ Decadent Authors in the Spotlight

 



"The tin grin was in. My mom took this picture in 1981 when I was nineteen. I had braces for six years," says Leanne Dyck (author of The Sweater Curse). Leanne offers no explanation for the glasses or the hair, however.





 



 







Rita Hestand - 1960s  "Me, the one is a picture of my hair ratted back in the late 60's, it is sticking out all over, the other is what it looked like when it was combed into a style.  My mother was a hairdresser and took both pics."

Kathleen Gallagher ~ "If I Could Turn Back Time", was released June 1, on my birthday. If Cher could wear the wild hairstyle, so could I. 

 Ann Mayburn ~ late 80's. "Those giant dark glasses, that tough girl glare, I was hell on wheels! Pink and grey 10 speed wheels that is. On a walk...with my grandma and my little brother. Yep...I was a real bad ass."

Valerie Mann ~ 1976, Denver, CO. Dig the groovy beaded headband and sexy hotpants (too bad the picture cut off the view of my legs). My mother made those duds for me - they said "VOTE" all over them. 

My father and I came home and found a wild duck in the yard. Judging from the stranglehold I had on it, it's no wonder it flew away during the night. 

 Clare Dargin - late 90's. That was a meeting for my job a little over ten years ago.  And they were going over from table to table taking pix and I was, oh, I've been here all day... okay... <cheez!> now go away so we can finish and I can go home!!

Maureen O. Betita
~ 1976. "I was 16 and this was my pic from my student body card. Oddly enough, I thought I was fat. Sigh. Man, I loved that shirt! And I often wore it with my light blue bell bottoms, painted with flowers on them... I still own them in my memory box."
















Mahalia Levey ~1993 April just admitted early into the military :)

Sheila Stewart ~ "Do not piss me off!!"

Mari Freeman ~ Mardi Gras Road Trip, New Orleans 1985

Gracen Miller - 1989 ~ Good Lord!!--that hair is atrocious!!!  LOL  And to think I paid for that awful curl job.  *shudders*  Looks more like I stuck my finger in an electric socket.  :-)

  












Jennifer Robins, Age 15
Jennifer always wanted to write even at an early age but couldn't find the needed time until she grew much older. 

 

Deena Remiel ~ A long time ago, in a land far away called Long Island, there lived a girl. There, she shed her sheltered world and came into her own as a college student for four years. This girl was captured in photograph in her second year, 1985. She partied hard, made great friends, and studied well.