Technicolor Memories
As I near the end of my Fall 2010 semester, I’m in the throes of “finals,” as I mentioned yesterday. I’m choosing to intersperse the tests and papers and projects […]
Fraaaaaa-geeeel-aye!
At this time, every year, a locally-owned company, Lamp Company will place in their display window a replica of the infamous Leg Lamp from A Christmas Story. This movie has […]
Tender Moment
Today, I had a moment – well, actually, I had a couple of them – while walking around the campus. When I was a little girl, my Grandpa Vic and […]
Moments and Memories
Moments and Memories I was walking down the restaurant’s narrow hallway toward the restrooms and was just about to enter the women’s facilities when the door swung open, startling me. […]
Hot Dog Memories
I opened the fridge to discover my father had purchased a package of hot dogs. Surprising myself, I let out a whoop! of glee and danced around like a small […]
First Day
Tears gather and burn behind my eyelids as I watch my daughter, so young and yet so grown up, walk out onto the strange playground. She has no friends here, […]
Visceral
Been thinking a lot about “visceral” stuff as of late. With all of the life/death/life up in my face the last week, I have chosen to be conscious about being […]
TT – “Hot Summer Nights”
The year was 1978. I was ten years old and feeling like a grown up girl as me and my friends piled into the back of our Pinto station wagon. […]
Going the Distance
Where I now live is a significant distance from where I work. With no traffic, it takes over a half hour for me to get to the office. During rush […]
Yes!
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/embed/embedflv/swf/fop_embed.swf?id=v2161798&eID=1301797&pm=0 (video added so you can download and have the actual song to which I refer later as the background music for your reading pleasure.) It was 1988. I was […]
The Prayer
I was just thinking of my Grandma Faye. I have been doing that a lot lately, missing the smell of roses and the color pink, missing the gentle click-click-click of […]
Because
So I am driving myself to work this morning, enjoying the beautiful sunrise and my music, which was full blast so I could sing along to my heart’s content. I […]
