This one is especially for Nicole and Stef!! Friday, May 24th, 1935 Jacob Stefanik told me my hair “looks lousy” and to make it grow long. Went to the game. Chicopee beat Westfield 6 to 4. “Honey” Polpeck is wonderful but he’s being used too much. Teddy Fidar got hit. I felt so sorry…
Category: Reading her own memories
Sharing May
I bring the new passages to Babu as she is beginning her daily exercises. Yes! She as PT exercises she still does nearly every day! 98. Amazing. I love her. So I wait and type as she does all kinds of leg lifts and counts them out animatedly in Polish. (Yup, I’m feeling like quite…
Classy, Snappy, and No Dumbbell!
Babu read the new set of passages and remembered a girl in her journal named Jenny and corrected the spelling of her last name. She still has so much of her memory but wont believe it! She even sometimes calls herself a “dumbbell,” which is far from the truth. She remembered that Jenny lived not…
Babu and Drobey sitting walking down the street…not even talking.
I’ve gently pushed, and gently pushd again – but I promise, blog, that I have pushed her for the last time! we read about Babu not going to the show and she said: “I guess I didn’t go with him…” And I even joshed her when we read about Teddy’s admonish of her causing Drobey…
Dedicated to Stanley Midura
My timing was bad when I brought the newest passages to her. I was giving her her 8:00 pills – bedtime pills – and I had given her her dessert and my cat was meowing in the hallway…Usually the process of reading these diary entries takes a half an hour – and I’ll be honest,…
Babu and Her Father
When I showed the second week of April to Babu it was really the last passage, Sunday, that we spent the most time on. At first I tried to prod her about Drobey AKA “Caveman” and I think the only way I’ll ever know is if I ever find the previous year’s diary. All…
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…
What does this silence speak?
What did my silence from this blog for so long indicate? And what does her silent reading now show? I’m back at it so I bring all of March 1935’s journals down to Babu. She begins reading and, like every single other time, she tells me: “I’ve never seen Jenete written that way.” Then she…
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…
Reading entertainingly and with wonder
I remember back to that almost snow day on Jan 24th, 1935. According to Babu, there were only about six students in each class and Ms. Short had them read from themes. Babu wrote: In Miss Short’s room we had to read from themes. I seem to have the habit of reading what I don’t see….
Reoccuring Threads
Every time I bring a parcel of pages down to Babu we end up on the same trails. We start in one place, the topic of whatever entries I bring down to her, then we move on and end up in the same place. I’ve written before about how, with the smallest occurrence, her life…
I showed Babu her entries from three years of New Year’s Eves and Days and there were no revelations, only sweetness. She remembered Harlan’s name but not him, and had no big reaction to the kiss with him. Ha! However, when she remembers you, you’re one lucky duck. She told me four times how beautiful…
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