Through the magic of Facebook my very first boyfriend just got in touch with me after having no contact with each other since the early 1980’s. Nice to know he’s alive, happily married, and lives in Canada.

Looking at this image I can’t help but get wistful about those evenings spent back in the 80’s at the old Hofbrau Haus in Montreal – a huge German themed beer hall with a circular, rotating stage in the middle  with an oompah band in lederhosens and plump, old, and mean German waitresses slamming schnapps dispensers down on the tables and rattling all the beer mugs and pitchers…