Category Archives: Recollections

The Hair Salon by the Side of the Road

There’s always, MORE to that, white-picket-fence and painted on face that you all see! Translated… The shop was owned and operated by a married couple, the husband works as the barber, the wife worked as a full-time housewife, and they … Continue reading

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The Taste of Home

How this woman remembers the love that her father had for her and her family, by unknowingly, carrying on the tradition of how he’d, cooked the meals for her family when she was just a young child, translated… In my … Continue reading

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Older Sister, Tou-Tou, from the Planet Meow

The life this family shared, with the stray cat, translated… We have two alien children in our home, our son, from Planet Slow-to-Grow, Strong, is the younger, and, his older sister, Heady, from Planet Meow, they make the Earthling Team … Continue reading

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Going to the Movies with My Son, on Relating with One’s Own Young

Because of the common major in school they’d shared, that, is what made this mother and son connect over the films, translated… I’m in the same university as my second son, both majoring in counseling psychology, and so every time … Continue reading

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Dreams, But No Place to Send Them…

The dreams we’d, once shared, now, I have, no place, to send them all to, you’d gone from me now, and, no amount of my crying, screamin’, or shoutin’ will, get you back to me again! Dreams, but no place … Continue reading

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Being Supportive of Your Husband’s Pursuits

Being supportive of one another, that, is what marriage is all about, isn’t it??? Translated… That day my husband asked if I had a book club meeting tomorrow? Seeing me nod, he’d handed me $2,000 said, “Here, for your cab … Continue reading

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A Mother’s Love in the Folds of the Clothes

The memories of a mother’s acts of love toward her young, translated… In our family’s LINE groups, my mother LINED a photo, it was a pair of sweats she’d altered for one of her grandchildren, and told the grandson to … Continue reading

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Remember…

Why? When I’m tryin’, so desperately to, forget, and am finally, on my way to? Remember how they’d hurt you, and remember the pains of their betrayals, so, you won’t, allow anyone else to get too close, to betray you … Continue reading

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Things I Would’ve Forgotten by Tomorrow…

Yes, still got my 24-hour-attention span INTACT here… Things I would’ve forgotten by tomorrow, what the HELL happened tonight? And, how the F*** did I end up in your bed? And, did you slip me a roofie or somethin’? Do … Continue reading

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Navigation Systems

Humans and birds, we’re actually, quite, alike, if you can believe it…translated… Directions for the pedestrians: The third exit from the ring road, go straight down London Road, turn right by the third stop light at Rose Road, passing by … Continue reading

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