Molly doesn’t live here anymore
Mom didn’t believe that children needed many things, and dad went along whether he agreed or not. “A nice neat simple life”, I remember them constantly saying,” We can’t have the house looking like the Romper Room now can we?” I was told from the time I was a small child that it just wasn’t […]
a death and 53 years with the same tiara
I remember my first day of Kindergarten as if it were yesterday. I didn’t want to be there. I was in the morning class and on the first day of school our parents got to ride the bus with us. I remember I didn’t want to get off the bus. The moms and a few […]
Help from a stranger turned into a life time friendship.
This coffee mug was given to me by my friend over 35 years ago.He came into my life when I was in the third grade. My sister’s and I were home alone one evening and and we were preparing to take baths. The tub water would not turn off so I ran down the road […]
Cheese balls & Kleenex
I had left my duty station at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in DC and was now stationed at Fort Lewis Washington. I remember feeling lucky as Fort Lewis was fairly close to Puyallup, Washington which was were I had called home most my life. I can’t remember if Peter and I had just gotten […]
barking dogs…. a confession
I was working at the assisted living facility in Lakeway, Texas as a medication aide. My job consisted of getting to work at 0500 and making my rounds giving residents medications. Many residents needed medications multiple times a day. By the time I finished the morning rounds it was time to start with the afternoon […]
A memory and a quote
While I was cleaning up the kitchen today I was thinking about childhood memories and wondering what a typical person thinks about when they remember their childhood? A memory came to mind, I was in 5th grade excited that the campfire girls meeting was going to be at my house. My mom loved to bake […]
confession of a 50 year old crime
When I was around 6 I heard that witches needed crystals to cast spells. My great grandmother Mabel had lots of lovely chandeliers with what I thought were crystals hanging from them so I decided to take /borrow a couple to do magic with. I am sure she wondered what happened to them or maybe […]
Childhood fun
As a kid I was often told to go play outside. For fun I used to put an old purse on a fishing pole, toss it out by the road and then hide in the woods across the street from our house. When people would stop to pick up the purse I would reel it […]
My life is a script from a Korean Drama! Part 2
BIG flashback to 1986. I was freshly divorced, and broke. A friend told me about an ad she saw in the paper which might be a way for me to earn some quick money. I called the number and was told to come in and fill out some paperwork, schedule some lab work and an […]
Some days I really think my life is a script from a Korean Drama. Part 1
Some days I really think my life is a script from a Korean Drama. Today I visited my past. I went to say goodbye to my very first boyfriend. He was just one year older than me and we met only because he dialed a wrong number back in 1979. When I picked up the […]