Dark Confessions Of A Political Blogger: I Once Showered With The Governor Of Alaska
It’s true. Since Whistler (who spends entirely too much time wheedling my embarrassing childhood stories out of my mom via IM) has decided to make an issue out of this, I’ll come clean.
Current Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was once my older sister’s high school classmate and basketball squad team member. My mom was a parent chaperon for the basketball team as both the boys’ and girls’ basketball seasons were at the same time and the teams traveled together. Since Alaska is flippin’ huge, out-of-town basketball trips were often overnight trips with the visiting team usually sleeping on cots or something in the home team’s school. Which meant that in the morning the team would shower in the locker room.
A couple of times I showered with Gov. Palin and the rest of the girls. It wasn’t a big deal. Not because of any suave machismo on my part, but rather because I was...like...five at the time and probably didn’t even want to be in the shower. I say that because I don’t even remember it happening. I’m just assuming that as a five year old boy I didn’t want to be clean.
Most five year old boys don’t.
But anyway, that’s my deep and dark secret personal secret about a now-prominent political figure.












