Sim Carter: Memoir + More Story Podcast

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.