There is a lot going on in these excerpts. There are three Halloween happenings, the Nee Wah initiation – just the girls – a cancelled party that turns into a night out with Jakey, and a dinner in the cemetery with Johnny. There are two boys, wait, three boys. We cant forget Depathy. He makes…
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That Letter Will Be Appreciated
https://www.loc.gov/item/98508422/ In October, 1938, Babu writes: Monday, October 3rd, 1938 It’s nice to ride to work in company in the morning. Three of the girls go to Bay Path and Jamie’s sister goes to civil service. This is National Letter Writing Week so I answered two letters. Mom is still taking Evelyn’s place at the…
October, 1938
One of my favorite months. My favorite season, my favorite flavors, and my favorite holiday. I wouldn’t be thinking about autumn if it weren’t for chronology. It simply was the newest month I needed to transcribe and write about. In now life, spring is beginning to wrap up and summer is on its way. And…
The Great Hurricane of 1938
It seems the powers that be, or mother nature, or…some entity had it out for us in the 1930s. I always marveled at how the Stock Market Crash and The Great Depression weren’t enough karmic punishment, (for what I don’t know!) but there was The Dust Bowl to make things even worse. Now as I’m…
Writing Wednesday: Progress!…?
I have been slaving away on two pieces. (Well, three if you count the blog.) Piece one is the umpteenth revision of my first novel and reading, no joke, this book: and getting ready to write a query and look for an agent. Woosh! A lot to do, for sure. I’m also working on a…
Sunday Share: Oddments
I have found yet another wonderful blog. This blog called Oddments contains some amazing and deceptively simple writing. Here are two poems from this blog. I love that they are called “connections.” Connections: May 24.17 When the echo is all and the used pages hang limp what of the note? Does it weep for its…
Two Wonderful Moments. Excerpts, September, 1938
What is so funny? I have solved the mystery! Friday, September 16th, 1938 Emmy, Vi, and I laughed till we were silly this afternoon over sea vegetable pills Emmy brought to give her energy. Friday night seems to be a steady going out one for Jakey. Wish he would include me once in a while. …
Excerpts, September 1938. The Let Down(s)
Have you ever got something started, or something got started with out your say so, and it’s still young and tender and you know that if you leave it, it stands the danger of withering before it really got started? I could be talking about my garden, about how hard it is to plant seeds…
Sunday Share: If I Were
I have been feeling close to poetry lately. I thought this poem by Frank Solanki was delightfully playful and layered. If I Was A Chameleon May 19, 2017 ~ Frank Solanki If I was a chameleon It would be so much fun Into a hundred colours I’d turn If I was a chameleon I’d turn…
August Excerpts and Vintage Pictures
Sunday, August 14th, 1938 Got up at five and am not going to bed until 12. We three couples went to Misquamicut. Stayed all day, ate, swam, took pictures, got burned. We sang most of the way up and back. On the way home we stopped by the way to eat the rest of our…
Writing Wednesdays: Hashtag Writing Life
My favorite day of the week is Thursday. I can hear the neighborhood begin to wake up at dusk with the early revilers. I love days with six letters like Monday and Friday. They are shorter to type. I always have to speak Wednesday phonetically as I write it. I love Sundays because I am…
August, 1938
August. Possibly my favorite month. Full summer, with a hint of excitement for the fall. The weather. The freedom. August. She goes mushroom hunting and finds more than just mushrooms. We got bit up and scratched up and I got a handful of berries and a couple of mushroom and a spray of flowers. …I…
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