She settled into the Valley where she spent the next 21 years sweating, searching out homes of the rich and famous, getting married, and having two amazing sons. She also joined the PTA.
She’s not famous and she isn’t a beat poet or a rock star, but she did eventually get her Gidget beach party and once sat next to Prince at a cafe. Recently, an opportunity has brought her and her family back to the Denver area where they have been living happily for the past three years.
Though currently still a housewife, Amy is fairly certain the beat poetry circuit will soon be looking for middle-aged moms in differing black seperates while also keeping her voice sharp singing along to Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam songs. She sometimes blogs at fangirlsuperhero.com.
Kicked Out of the PTA!
written by Amy Ferguson
This humorous story is about all of the masks we wear to fit in with people whose masks look a little bit shinier than ours under the library lights at a PTA meeting in the affluent neighborhood of Encino, California. And it’s a story about how, deep down, we are all insecure middle-schoolers. This is a fictionalized version of true events.
© 2021 Amy Ferguson | Recording © 2021 Rivercliff Books & Media. All rights reserved.
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Amy Ferguson
Amy grew up just outside of Denver, Colorado believing she was destined to be discovered as either a beat poet or a really famous rock star. She was good at neither. At the age of 20, her dreams of fame and Gidget beach parties eventually took her west to Los Angeles, California in a beat-up 1985 Honda CRX with no air conditioning.
She settled into the Valley where she spent the next 21 years sweating, searching out homes of the rich and famous, getting married, and having two amazing sons. She also joined the PTA.
She’s not famous and she isn’t a beat poet or a rock star, but she did eventually get her Gidget beach party and once sat next to Prince at a cafe. Recently, an opportunity has brought her and her family back to the Denver area where they have been living happily for the past three years.
Though currently still a housewife, Amy is fairly certain the beat poetry circuit will soon be looking for middle-aged moms in differing black seperates while also keeping her voice sharp singing along to Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam songs. She sometimes blogs at fangirlsuperhero.com.
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This is a story about all of the masks we wear to fit in with people whose masks look a little bit shinier than ours under the library lights at a PTA meeting in the affluent neighborhood of Encino, California.
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