I store my memories externally, in photos, belongings purchased during special times, gifts, books I once read or taught from, poems, and sometimes journals. One year I journaled on pages that I first painted, the colors and uneven texture of thickly painted paper eliciting words and phrases that had not emerged on crisp white sheets. […]
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Time Travel
Posted in Camp, Finery, Friendship, Grandparents, Natural World, Photos, Reminiscences on February 8, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
The Mists of Asphalt
Posted in Aging, Books, Emotions/Inner World, Fantasies, Girls, Grandparents, Women on October 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I think I saw a faerie the other day. I wasn’t expecting to, but no one sees faeries by setting out to do so. First I saw only her car: boxy and angular, the white exterior paint dulled slightly with age. A regal anomaly among the sleek, smooth, rounded vehicles that dominate the road. My […]
My Grandfather’s Cologne
Posted in Connection, Death/Loss/Grief, Grandparents, Marriage on April 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
After my Grandfather died, my Grandmother would sometimes wear his cologne. In my memory, it’s Aramis, but that was what my high school boyfriend wore, so it’s quite likely I’ve overlapped histories and memories to create something meaningful yet factually inaccurate. But the part about her wearing men’s cologne – her man’s cologne – after […]
A Crack in the Diamond
Posted in Grandparents, Marriage on November 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This week is the anniversary of my maternal grandmother’s death. Also of her birthday, since they were just one day apart, her life opening and closing in a full circle, which seems somehow apt for a full-bodied, ample-bosomed woman who knew every kind of love and loss by the time it was her time to […]
The Gas Pedal’s on the Right
Posted in Cars, Grandparents, Reminiscences on September 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The automobile drivers in my community are polite, conscientious folk who frequently drive their Subarus and Priuses below the speed limit, let multiple other cars cut in front of them at a highway turn off, and slow rather than accelerate when the traffic light is yellow, to make sure all the cars will be out […]