Here's what I grapple with. Did my father believe his lies sometimes, or lie so often that he became confused about reality?

Riley was young in the mid-1940s. New York offered him many fantastic opportunities to find work and meet new people.

My Dad introduced me to Colonel Tom Parker, telling Parker that it was my 16th birthday."Oh? Sweet sixteen and never been kissed?"

In 1937 I went to California. I felt the need to explore new possibilities. Sid Grauman saw me perform at a theater and agreed to be my agen

When I was a little girl, Dad told me about Alma. He announced, out of the blue, that his first wife committed suicide.

Riley started this journal late in life, maybe in the 1980s. With some pages, he begins with his age, then he includes not only personal...

As a kid, I called my father "Riley." I was allowed to call my parents by their first names, or Mom and Dad. Sometimes in this blog,...

Years later, when my father died in 2009, I was contacted by Dave Sichak, who wanted to write up an obituary for a Hillbilly music website.

I took a good look at my birth certificate. I wanted to see if my father put his real name down, Riley Shepard. He did not.

30 years ago, my father wrote me a letter emphatically explaining that there's no such thing as free will.