52 Dresses - Week 19
July 19, 2015
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The other day I was thinking about the Tammy doll I had as a child. Beside the outfit it was sold with, I also had one wool outfit--a plaid skirt bottom with attached corduroy sweater.
Did you know there were four different versions of Tammy? I think I had the pos'n Tammy doll (the 1964 version) but I could be wrong. Tammy was made by the Ideal To...
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52 Dresses - Week 18
July 12, 2015
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My mother-in-law was tall and elegant. She was a compassionate and warm woman—generous in many ways. She loved the arts: attended the theatre, the opera, the symphony, played the piano, gardened, enjoyed bridge and lunching with friends. Because of her nurturing personality, I saw her more as my mother. It felt sudden when we lost her—she passed tw...
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52 Dresses - Week 17
July 05, 2015
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A page from one of many journals... (and before I stopped watching television)
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
It’s about 2pm and I’m on the platform waiting for the train. I’ve started out late because I found myself glued to the television watching “The Peoples Court” with Judge Milan.
One of the cases reminded me of my accident in 2006. I r...
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52 Dresses - Week 16
June 14, 2015
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I had a typical childhood for someone growing up in the inner city, lower income neighborhood. My father was protective of his daughters, controlling over every action, with a strong sense of family. We were always visiting relations in Indiana, Michigan, or Texas. The long car rides to Texas were the most stressful—my father was often irritable ha...
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52 Dresses - Week 15
May 31, 2015
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Back in the early 80s my then boyfriend and I took a train up to Boston to stay with some old college friends of his. We rented a car and one day drove to Salem. While walking the cobbled streets we saw about ten feet ahead, a little boy stomping on something. As we came closer, I could see that it was a Barbie doll, naked with a severed head--the...
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