Okay, this is really weird. As soon as I left for college back in nineteen-aught-seventy-two, my mother started sending clippings: first, newspaper articles about acquaintances’ weddings. Then the jobs, honors and children of these same people. Now, of course, the deaths have started rolling in, mostly of adults important to me when I was young, but also of my peers. Woven through these threads have been the odds and ends: a feature from Antiques Digest […]
Read moreMonth: September 2007
Hello, Goodbye
Shirley asked me to write a note to Christopher. I did, and slid it into the sock that I gave Shirley. She put them atop his diminutive white casket at the funeral. Dear Christopher, I tried to make you a pair of socks but they came out funky. Here’s one of them. I threw out the other. You wouldn’t believe how sad I am not to have met you. Like everyone else, I had plans […]
Read moreMoving In
Lulu put some pictures up on her photo blog today. She and her roommate (G, from Whittier) are impressive in how carefully they planned what to bring, and in how efficiently they organized everything into that very small room. She and G brought the exact same Harry Potter poster, so there’s a mirror effect on the opposing walls. See for yourself how homey their nest has become, now that mine is empty:
Read moreMy Little College Girl
Tomorrow Lulu leaves for college. That day that I first brought her back from the hospital seems like two or three lifetimes ago, and yet it also seems like last week. Oh, wait: I never brought her back from any hospital. I must have mixed her up with someone else. She was born at home. I’m happy she got into a good school, and I’m really happy that she’s happy to be going. As I […]
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