This past March was tense and difficult. The 11th was Babu’s birthday but instead of her, we had a job. Adam’s uncle, Tony, came from Tennessee and helped to start the process of doling out things that were hers and now theirs. You can imagine how that can go. At some point one night during…
Category: April A- Z
April A-Z: Contact
It has finally happened and it has warmed my heart. The world is not so large as I once thought. I knew eventually someone would contact me through the blog about someone they knew or about a family member they heard about but never got to meet. Out there, even beyond the blogosphere, there is…
April A-Z: The Blow Up, September, 1940
I would bet some of you will be able to relate. I currently have 19 posts in various forms of no where near publish-ready hanging out at the top of my screen. What a great mine for posts when looking for gold during the April A-Z Challenge. This is a post I began a while…
April A-Z: Absence
… This is having no reason to keep 480 packets of Polident. (We were unable to throw it out.) An empty room. (Filling with boxes to be sent. This one to Tennessee, this one just down the street.) 2:00 comes (routine, routine, routine) and there’s nothing to do. We have started to fill our time…
A-Z Challenge Theme Reveal!
Hello everyone. I have not been around these parts much lately. As I have been working on drafts of posts and going back through all stuff Babu and this blog, I have been feeling myself unwind and feel lighter. I need to get back to writing and here is my push! The April A-Z Challenge. …
April A-Z: January
Usually, when I “end one year” and “begin another” inside this project I celebrate almost as much as I do the actually changing of years. Ok, that’s an exaggeration, but possibly this January, the January of 1940, deserves to start without a lot of fan fair. Here is a shock: Oh my. This hasn’t happened…
April A-Z: Insufficient sleep
You really cannot say that Babu had a wild life. She did everything a good woman of the time was supposed to do: waited until marriage, did well in her college studies, got work and was, for the most part, a very dependable employee. Even still, here is one passage I will never forget: Rumble…
April A-Z: November, 1939: Doubts
Here is an extra post for April A-Z for D. I leave this here as a record of where Babu and “Peaches” or “Cookie” or whatever sweet thing she is calling Jake, are in this moment. Yes, here is the typical Babu, doubting: Monday, November 13th, 1939 My honey took me to work this morn…
April A to Z: Dawn Dance
The first time I ever read about “Dawn Dances” was October 11th, 1937. I wrote about it in this post: A Brief History of Dance Feel free to click on that link and check out the entire post, it was a fun one! This is a snippet of what I wrote: Monday, October 11th, 1937…
April A-Z Four Hundred!!
Yes, my April A-Z is completely out of order. I’m out of order! I had to jump to “F” today because…drum roll please…this is my four hundredth post. I find that amazing. I think of the work I still have to do I think that this four hundred is a drop in the bucket and…
A-Z Challenge: Hair
Yesterday, my mother came over and together we washed and set Babu’s hair. This was my second time doing it since her hair dresser that would come to the house retired and is no longer coming. Man, I miss her. The first time, Adam took care of washing and my mother and I set her…
April A-Z Birds and Breakfast
I jumped on WordPress this morning in a scurry to catch up with the A-Z Challenge and my reader was full of birds. A robin from nature has no boss and many cardinals from avian101. I wont post the pictures as they belong to these photographers, but checking out their post is worthwhile. They inspired…
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