Babu is so engrossed in a book she can’t do her homework. I looked it up and it was hard to find but it seems to be “There’s Always Tomorrow” by Ursula Parrott, a romance novel. 🙂 She gets her rose shaded glasses and finds out her eyes were pretty bad. To think she sees…
Month: April 2016
Maps to Where She’s Been
April is National Poetry Month! My mind seemed to have forgotten by not my fingers. I’ve been producing a lot of poems lately. I thought I’d share! Maps to Where She’s Been She fears the murky places in her memory, Places she can no longer go. Ancient cartographers would have simply scrawled “There be dragons”…
Excerpt from the first week of April
Tuesday April 2, 1930 Oh but I am an awful person. I’m so jealous of Jeanette. You know Diary, how popular she is. I wish I could be! Oh I’ll never click. She has a whole train of attendants and what have I. She jumped 4:2 today. Wonderful! I better start training for running and…
Ode to Miss Short – and – Might as Well, Miss Caswell
Babu read out loud: “Miss Short embarrassed me. She called me a tomboy for sitting on the arm of a chair.” She looked up at me with eyebrows scrunched and lips pouted. A pointed look. It said: “See what I mean?” Maybe a modern teen would just say “da fuck??” I’m sending this out as…
The First Week of April, 1935
April fool’s day pranks – Babu fell for one but didn’t enact her own. Her teacher embarrasses her again – but it’s not an April Fool’s joke, it’s her M.O. Babu laments her lack of popularity and her abundance of zits. Fooey ! She is beautiful, kind, interesting, and smart. People clearly love her and…
Excerpts from March
In my last post I didn’t share all the adorable Babu quotes for March because there were some entire passages that I wanted to share. Saturday, March 16, 1935 I loved today. I was mostly sun shining and oh so warm. All the kids were out playing. Sophie was in bed because she got an…
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