Working as an extra, along with my son, on Tom Hanks' directorial debut 'That Thing You Do' is one of those things I'll never forget. Sharing that memory with you here.

The ending of my series of stories about a trip to France I took with my sister in the seventies, saying good bye to my romantic illusions.

Parts four and five of memoir about a trip my sister and I took to France in 1973, I was 20, she was 16.

Part 3 of a series of pieces about traveling in France with my sister. It was the seventies. I was 20, she was 16. We had a lot to learn. We had a blast doing it. More to read at www.simcarter.com

Part 2 of a series of pieces about traveling in France with my sister. It was the seventies. I was 20, she was 16. We had a lot to learn. More to read at www.simcarter.com

My sister Nancy and I visited Paris and the south of France in the 1970's This is the first of a series of memoir pieces about the trip. Visit my site www.simcarter.com for more

Ordering Robert DeNiro's lunch was one of many different little jobs I did working as an assistant production coordinator on Tales from the Crypt in the late 1980's Did I have anything to do with DeNiro coming to be the cofounder of Nobu? I doubt it but I like to think so!

Working my way through college, selling cosmetics at the Drug Store, I learned a few things about myself. What I wanted. And what I didn't.

Back in the day a girl could work her way through college with a job selling cosmetics at the drug store. Those were the days, my friend. The 1970's.

Last part of Derek stories. Remembering coming together and coming apart with Derek, that boyfriend from the 70's, the places we went, the things we did, from driving in his GTO to spending a weekend in San Diego, going to Sea World when Sea World was still cool.

On Sunset is the 7th in the series about an old boyfriend—Derek—from the 1970's. We used to spend a lot of time cruising Santa Monica, looking for places to be alone, to make out, and who knows what else. One of our favorite drives was down Sunset to the beach and back.

Part 6 of a series of pieces about an old boyfriend from the 1970's

#5 in a series of stories about an old boyfriend from the 1970's

Part four of my stories about an old boyfriend from the 1970's.

Part 3 of my story about Derek, a boyfriend from the 1970's. I was in my first year of college, he was just graduating high school.

Part 2 of the story of an old boyfriend I'm calling Derek, and what it was like to wish and hope and watch from afar. More at www.simcarter.com

We didn't celebrate the Fourth of July when I was a kid growing up back in Canada, but that doesn't mean we didn't have fireworks. Memoir, 1960's More at www.simcarter.com

Recording my bits and pieces of memoir, pages pulled from a boomer life, hoping to put them together in a book someday. Grew up in the 1960's, spent my 20's in the 1970's, still single at thirty something in the 1980's, married & older mom in the 1990's. Boys and Black Coffee goes back to one of my first jobs, and one of my first loves. Derek #1 More at www.simcarter.com

Working at Universal Studios Hollywood—North Hollywood that is—I was getting started on a new life after a seven year relationship came to an end. One of my first dates ended in a way I'd never have imagined. More at www.simcarter.com

Moving to San Juan, Puerto Rico from Niagara Falls, Canada was an unforgettable experience for a 15 year old girl in 1968 More at www.simcarter.com