“Just don’t think about it and do it.”

My life can’t just be simple:  Go to work, come home, help to take care of my grandmother, spend time with husband, cook and clean and take care of myself.  For many reasons and due to many X factors, it isn’t like that at all, the first three are the only ones that happen with…

Fourth Week of February and First Week of March 1935

She started an autograph book and still seems to be swooning a little over having gotten WBZ’s autograph. She talks with a classmate, Evelyn, about going away to school.  She hopes she wont have to go alone. Someone Johnny takes care of got Scarlet fever and he is not allowed back at school and Babu’s…

Reading her journals – The experience so far.

I was surprised initially reading her journals that they were so clinical.  Not only were they almost simply a clean record of the day, but they lacked detail.  What does this club you attended do?  What was your theme about?  Why weren’t you going to prom?  I expected them to be secretive and was surprised…

Excerpt #6

Jenete has 2 sets of initials in her book.  Her’s and Robert Sullivan’s and mine and Judson Ferguson’s.  I think he’s so magnetic.  He’s got a forehead like Franchot Tone.  I was ironing some cuffs and collars and I haven’t done my brief on Burke.  Poor me. :)!!!

Second and Third Week of Feburary 1935

She attended a Quill and Masque meeting and claimed she didn’t fit in with this group of people.  The club sounds interesting and I plan on asking her what this club did.  Spoiler alert since I have transcribed ahead of this month, she continues to go to it. She got a valentine from Caveman, was…