Comparison

Mostly what this project has done is brought me closer to Babu and shown me how similar we are.  Two major aspects of similarities between us were her insecurity and her theatre life.  I could relate greatly to both and even to how she only ever got the small roles. But sometimes I see large…

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Did You Miss It? I Sure Didn’t!

Were you laughing when you read Saturday’s post?  You may have missed a few things if you weren’t.  Check it out: Excerpts April, 1937 Babu always has a way of writing something off hand, explaining nothing, and leaving me saying “Whhhaattt?” Let’s look at April 15th again: “John came in after 12 and started playing…

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Sunday Share: Keep it Minimal!

Keeping things simple, decluttered, and clean are so important when you are care taking for an elderly person.  It’s important to do that in their spaces, with their things, but it’s also important for the care taker to do so. Less is more when life is stressful.  You know where things are, the house feels…

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Excerpts April, 1937

To be completely cliche- these excerpts are the good, the bad, and the ugly of April, 1937.  It seemed appropriate because this month was such a mix of highs and lows. In romance: The Good: Monday, April 12th, 1937 Didn’t go home after school.  Ernie and I went to the show and saw Bette Davis…

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It’s a Thin Line

I haven’t shared much in the way of passages lately with Babu.  In the way of excuses I have:  I began the year with a pretty bad cold and wasn’t putting my germy laptop in front of Babu, then the first day I went to share the computer battery died, then I’ve been working a…

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Also April, 1937

April saw the resolution of one conflict but another one, this time at home, reared an ugly head.  There was always tension between Babu and her parents and the landlady. Here’s an example from December, 1936: Johnny Olbryck’s mother is a meany.  She won’t let us have steam heat.  Says she needs an even temperature…

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April, 1937

In April, 1937, she has just turned 19, is in college to be a secretary, has best friends Ernie and Zosh. Sometimes I do that to center myself because as we speak I am down stairs with her “doing breakfast” and she is 98, has had four kids, needs help with making food, unlacing her…

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How Am I Doing?

Well!  It’s the end of January and I have been posting every day!  (I’ve also been doing about 25 hours a week at Whole Foods, my day job, taking care of my gram, working on other writing projects, barely…)  I haven’t been getting much exercise, eating much healthy food, or doing much relaxing.  I’m a…

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March 1937, An Excerpt Deserving of a Post All its Own.

In 1937, Easter was celebrated in March.  Did you know that Easter is a “moveable holiday?”  It is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first Spring full moon?  I’m not sure of the truth of this, but I was surprised that Babu writes about celebrating Easter so early in the year, so maybe it’s…

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Sunday Share: America is Great.

This Sunday Share comes from a blog I am new and unfamiliar with called An American Song but I liked what I read.  This author has written a book where he (she?) interviewed people all across America, average people, and wrote down their stories.  It sounds a lot like what I do here with Babu…

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March, 1937 Excerpts: Dual Theatre and the WPA

As I said yesterday, the dramatic tension of March was how Babu was going to manage being cast in two plays at once.  The first was the WPA play: Monday, March 1st, 1937 Surprise?  I’ve got a part in the WPA play “Correspondence Courtship.”  That of Bessie the dumb shop girl.  Oh!  If only I…

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March, 1937

Babu turns 19!! Mother and Dad gave me a dainty pair of white kid gloves, some material for a dress, and a dozen narcissus for my birthday tomorrow. But before her birthday, she gets pretty ill.  From the description I wonder if it were worse then she even knew.  It then passes around her house…

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