It’s awkward enough reading and writing about Babu’s desires for Jakey and how she fights to resist temptation: Saturday, April 20th, 1940 Peaches and I went for a ride. It didn’t last long cause we drove into our stall and almost drove ourselves to destruction. But some things are even more awkward than that. As…
Month: July 2018
Uncomfortable: Part One
Now that I feel I truly exhausted February, March, and the beginning of April, it’s time I move on to some pages that were a bit more uncomfortable to read and left me wondering how would I write about them. Writing about what is in these pages means writing about Babu. No matter what I…
Sunday Share: Birthday Reflections
I’ve just read a lovely post written by Judy Dykstra Brown and I connected all too much to the superstition and reflections around birthdays. I wrote about some similar things here: The Big Day Along with a wonderfully written post, and blog!, there was a very moving poem included in this post. Please check out…
Poor Poland
As I read her 1940 and even, of course, her 1939 passages I look for signs of war because I want her version of this story I already know. Her opinions, emotions, when, how, and how often the topic arrises in her pages tells me of The American Experience at this time. What is more…
The Beginning of 1940
February, March and April, these are the days. Love isn’t really heating up or cooling off, it’s nice and steady. Wonderful! The roller coster of love has turned to the lazy river for a moment. And it’s so romantic. So, maybe more like one of those Ventian boats a guy in a striped shirt pushes…
Throw Back Thursday: How it Used to Be and The Stupid Things I Thought
I continue the process of going back through my old posts and I get no farther than the second post I ever released out to the blogosphere, before my mind over loaded with revelries and nostalgia. I sometimes wish she were still in school, writing papers and sniping about her teachers in her diary. It’s…
Retro Wednesday: Trolleys Part Two
Read part one here: Retro Wednesday: Trolleys Part One There were the times she had to wait for the trolley (and faced repercussions,) Friday, January 22nd, 1937 We lost our game with the Juniors 30 to 28 but it was a pretty good game. After school we had a practice then I bought a tan sport…
Our Fourth Comes Early
It’s that time of year again: summer and Independence Day! The Chicopee fireworks are always one of the first scheduled in our area. June usually has not even ended yet before we get ready for the light show. And we are the luckiest ducks. Yes, that is my beautiful sister and my beyond cute niece…
Back to June, 1939
Guess what?!?! I also missed a bunch of images that go along with June, 1939 so I cannot help but to splatter those up here as well in tandem with their text. (Man I love when the diary entry and the images collide!) Sunday, June 4th, 1939 It broke today raining and we almost didn’t…
An Opinionated Sunday Share
My Sunday Share this week is a lovely blog called Of Opinions. It’s definitely not the political ball of anger leftist/rightist page you might assume it to be – current political climate aside. It’s a nice blog from a twenty something. I enjoyed reading this piece: Of Not Writing a Diary In a way, it’s a…
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