You know when you’re little and you have a secret\u00a0friend? Someone you made up but you tell everyone about them, play with their invisible self while talking to them, and insist that\u00a0this friend is real?<\/p>\n
My sisters tell me I had a “secret friend” named Patty. At least I think that’s the name. I don’t remember any of it. Maybe my sisters made it up.<\/p>\n
But I always had a secret identity, or two or three. And I guess our secret friends are the same as our secret identity.<\/p>\n
When I was in high school I had a secret boyfriend named Ron. I made him up. I bought myself a ring and had it engraved with “Star Baby,” [pictured above, I still have it]. That was a Guess Who song title<\/a>.<\/p>\n I told my best friend all about my sexual adventures with Ron, who gave me the Star Baby ring. I was still a virgin, but I desperately wanted a boyfriend.<\/p>\n I’ve never been much good at keepin’ a secret I don’t have any secret friends any more. My friends are all real people. Most of the time.<\/p>\n But I still have a secret identity. I secretly believe\u00a0I’m an artist.<\/p>\n Tonight\u00a0I started recrafting my website to fit my secret identity. One problem: The website has my name on it. LisaSchnellinger.com<\/p>\n Now what?<\/p>\n Today’s penny is a 1974. Songfacts.com says, “The Chicago radio station WLS, which gave “Star Baby” heavy airplay, ranked the song as the 37th most popular hit of 1974.”<\/p>\n https:\/\/youtu.be\/4Y8iG6Oz5XA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You know when you’re little and you have a secret\u00a0friend? Someone you made up but you tell everyone about them, play with their invisible self while talking to them, and insist that\u00a0this friend is real? My sisters tell me I had a “secret friend” named Patty. At least I think that’s the name. I don’t … read more The secret friend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[193,35,1061,243,223,1060],"class_list":["post-8469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvisation","tag-193","tag-art","tag-friend","tag-identity","tag-music","tag-secret"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8474,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions\/8474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow it’s easy for me to say
\nThat I’m head over heels shook up about the way that you fool with me<\/p><\/blockquote>\n