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…
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…
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…
Constantly Evolving,or Just Evolving All At Once?
As you know, last month I got Freshly Pressed and got a flood of new people checking out the blog, following me and commenting. At first, I got a little confused because people were sending me lovely messages like: And how did you get that rough draft? You wrote it. That still counts. A…
February, 1937
No airships, no natural disasters, no new presidents elected. Just February, 1937. The month begins with Babu’s date with Richard R. I still do not know where this boy came from, but her date seemed nice. Ice skating – which was kind of a fail. And they got to the movies, late, but saw a…
The OA
Does Babu have an OA? Let me explain: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. There is an amazing show on Netflix called the OA. People who have “Near Death Experiences” come back but with the power of angels. (It is really an amazing show!) This makes me think of Veronica Syper. If you remember, in the post…
Sunday Share – Story telling I aspire to!
This was a wonderful post I found on https://wildheartoflife.blog/ Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked The party was in full swing. Indentured servants did their best to placate the unruly guests, refilling the carafes of thick, mulled wine, pouring the bourbon that glistened in the crystal glasses like casts of amber in the sunlight. The…
The Theatricality of it All
In past conversations with Babu about my former job of being a Theatre teacher, she would often either say: I don’t think we ever had those kind of classes in school. or: I think I did some plays at Bay Path… Well, wasn’t I surprised to read about Babu doing so much theatre. She had…
January, 1937 Excerpts
Do you know how in a book or a movie where the writer will use the weather to create or support the mood in the narrative? For example, sun shining and birds singing when a character is in love or storm clouds, thunder and then rain when the break up happens? It is such a…
January, 1937
The beginning of the new year did not disappoint. They drove around blowing horns and her friend Harland climbs out of the car and dances on the running board. Celebration and jubilation! After that bit of fun, January seems to be a month of many boys. There are quite a few interested in her, and…
101 Things in 1001 days
I was inspired by other blogs to do this. Some things relate to this blog, and some just to the blogger. So here it is 101 things to do in 1001 days! Writing: Dissonance: 1. Get agent for Dissonance. 2. Get Dissonance published. TM: 3. Post every day in 2017 and consistently in…
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