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Kyoko DHE – Dental Hygienist Extraordinaire

Kyoko DHE – Dental Hygienist Extraordinaire K yoko has been my dental hygienist for the last 20 or so years. This is my story on finding her and how she became so important to me that I feel compelled to write a story about her. I know it probably seems a bit of a reach that I would write about my dental hygienist but hopefully that will become more clear to you after reading this. F or a long time I had an on again, off again relationship with the dentist office. From the time I got out of the Air Force in 1972 until somewhere around 1980 I had no relationship at all. During that period, I not only did not see a dentist, I also did not see any kind of doctor, the only exception was when I broke my arm playing basketball. In 1980 I finally gave in and decided to see a dentist. I found a dentist I liked in San Jose, but I can't remember his name. When I select a dentist it's always very important that they have a good dental hygienist and by good I mean someone who

Heidi

  Heidi Heidi in my apartment in SF - 1984 S hortly after I met Heidi I was talking with my mom when she remarked that she thought it was great how failed love relationships did not seem to discourage me from starting up new ones. By her count I'd already been through 4 serious relationships, Donna, Dottie, Cyd, and Kathy. I hadn't thought about it. I knew a couple of people who, after a failed relationship, became more guarded about getting involved again. That was not me. I think one reason may be that I don't think of relationships that end as necessarily failures. I also am not one to look too far back or forward. I tend to live in the current week. And maybe most of all, I find the feeling of falling and being in love so intoxicating and marvelous that I could not see where past experiences would keep me from doing it again. Is there a greater feeling or a bigger high in life than falling in love with someone who is also falling in love with you? Not for