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I'm a twentysomething MFA grad enjoying life in a state of flux, dreaming of Paris and San Francisco while loving the warm summer evenings in North Carolina. I'm a little irreverent, a little mercurial, with an uncanny knack for putting my foot in my mouth.
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Tag Archives: childhood
From My Mother’s Journal
Apparently, I was fascinating as a baby. Fascinating. * * * 11-12-83 Took 3 or 4 steps (crawling) with hands and knees both Drinking better from cup. Refuses bottle–even juice Makes cute gurgling sound
From My Mother’s Journal, July 6, 1984
I’m terrible at winking. I look kind of spastic, like there is something wrong with my eye, a twitch or something. Now I know that I have my Aunt Leslie to blame… (Also, Bo was a black poodle we had. Not the prissy kind. The fun, lovable, tear-up-your-curtains-when-you’re-gone kind.) July 6, 1984 (a little over [...]
From My Mother’s Journal
(added to the top of one page, in black ink) Born 5-2-83; stayed in the hospital 1 week. Was delivered by Caesarean. Had jaundice after 5 days. We brought you home on Mother’s Day! Granny stayed a week w/us. Aggie came for 3 days after you were 3 wks.
From My Mother’s Journal, October 15, 1983
(five months) Crawled one step or whatever.
What I’d Rather Not Think About
Yeah, and there are other things that are harder to talk about than good days and waffle toppings. Like, how the older I get the more terrified I become of losing my parents, and how more inevitable it seems. I am not coping well with their aging, with the knowledge that one day, assuming we [...]
From My Mother’s Journal, July 1988
(five years old) Lots of changes in our lives all at once. Your Dad got a new job at McDonnell Douglas, we are moving a short distance away, 4310 Abbott Ave., the car is having lots of problems, the family room flooded again (in house on Edgewood), just to name a few things. You are [...]
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