Once again, the factory was getting short on work. I had enough time in that the floor manager really tried to keep me busy. I sewed on buttons and belt loops. Those were with little zig-zap machines that didn’t require a degree in speed-sewing. I “bagged”, putting the finished down jackets in plastic bags to [...]

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December was wearing on and it was getting closer and closer to Christmas. I was going through the motions of a “normal” life. Get up in the morning, eat my breakfast of toast and eggs or a bowl of cereal with milk. I might or might not have some OJ but it was never fresh [...]

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Maybe not but there has certainly been a lot of it today. WeatherBug shows a half inch for the valley where I spent the day but I’d (almost) be willing to bet it was more than that. It started mid-afternoon and would come through in waves. At one point, there was a Code Black called [...]

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Note: I was watching an interview with Julie Andrews recently. She was promoting her new book, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years. When she was writing it, her daughter was doing the transcription. Reading the manuscript made her realize just how “dark” her early life had been. It had never dawned on her before. [...]

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We had moved to the projects in August 1972. DH made it through his junior year at the university and DS1 was in the second grade. DS2 had bad luck with his pets. One of his gerbils expired and Henry Aaron, the guinea pig, was done in by a neighbor girl. She freaked out when [...]

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And I’ll have to revise what I said about buying speckled bananas and storing them in Evert-Fresh Green Bags. They are great for greens but not so much for the bananas. Maybe for greenish ones (I haven’t tried that) but the speckled ones didn’t age much on the outside but they got overripe and mushy [...]

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Our existence took on the semblance of a routine. The boys were five and seven and school hadn’t started yet. I’d take them to a sitter and go to work in the beauty shop while DH pursued his flying lessons and prepared for the fall quarter at the university. My job turned out to be [...]

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My DH used to say he married me for three reasons. One, I could cook. Two, I could spell. Three, I already had children. He didn’t include Four, I had adult attention deficit disorder. I was never diagnosed with it but it would explain a lot. When it came time to pack, I was going [...]

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