Bits and Pieces

“I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid, you’re afraid of us. You’re afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin.  Where we go [...]

Papaw’s, Grandma’s and the like

I filed an invoice for JVC the other day… Can’t come across those initials without thinking of my Papaw Long… He was the man behind the video camera at every family get together… except when he was doing gainers off the diving board at 73 (That’s amazing to me… amazing in a [...]

When I was a kid I was…

…a wanna be tomboy…. I wanted to be tough but I wasn’t. I remember pretending to turn my ankle when we played hide and seek because I could never get to base without being tagged. No one wants to be it over and over again. Thinking back on it I’m not sure it was a [...]

Yours, mine, ours & somebody else’s…

Continuing to remember who I am, I thought I would write more memories about my family life and growing up  because they really play a huge role in shaping us into who we are…
I’m the baby and was seldom told no. My parents decided not to spank me but rather to raise me with psychology. [...]

remembering who I am

For a long time I viewed my childhood as sub par for several reasons… mostly rooted in beliefs about how I “should” have been raised so that I would have turned out a “better” person. As I gain more life experience I’m learning to let go of those idealistic notions. I view the happenings of [...]