Sunday, June 3, 2007
SUNDOWN IS LESS THAN HALF A DAY AWAY
I will not even try to go into all that I lived through for the next year. I did look for dressmakers particularly those with good skills. I cut patterns and tried them using the designer patterns rather than on those commercial home sewing tissue paper things. I found four in the beginning that...
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Saturday, June 2, 2007
IT IS NOW MORE ABOUT FREEDOME AND SURVIVAL THAN MAKING HIM GO!
We walked without light toward the back of the garage. It was difficult to keep my footing but I was afraid he would reach out and steady me. I was just sure for some reason I did not want to go in there, not at all. I stopped. “What are you doing? Come on.” “I am not sure I want to go in there, no...
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Friday, June 1, 2007
Are there Dancing Girls or Pink Elephants Behind The Black Glass?
I knew I didn’t want to know what I had to know. What was in my garage? I could not come up with any reasonable conclusion. My Ex was an unusual man. He was pleasant to all whom he met except me. Sometimes he was cruel to his children, too. He didn’t go anywhere or do anything. He rarely drank. This...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
MY LAUNDRY ROOM HAS BLACK 'PAINTED' WINDOWS? HUH
Here we are back at home, surprise, surprise car and truck belonging to Ex parked neatly in the back yard, just like old home day. Of course I acted surprised that he was there. Actually I was despite what the Real Estate person told me. She didn’t tell me he was living there; somewhere inside me I...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
OOPS! SOMEBODY DROPPED A BOMB, WONDER WHO?
I spent that Saturday night planning my new mode of operation. The children were pouting. They thought it was all my fault that their daddy had left without so much as a goodbye. I don’t think I slept at all that night. I knew what I wanted to do. I knew that I was able to do it except for the...
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Sunday, May 27, 2007
IT WAS A VIRGINIA SLIM MOMENT!
Perhaps I would feel to shy to tell you all this had it been a different time. But I had never had a drink of alcohol at this point. I had never slept with another man except the one I was married to. Did that make me a prude? No. Did it make me a saint? No. I was a product of my upbringing. I...
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WHICH WAS GREATER MY EXCITMENT, MY FEAR OR MY GUILT?
I soon saw I was in way over my head. The job was spectacular. But home life was anything but. The children had a great school. It was an experimental one and my twelve year old was helping write and edit a school newspaper. The six year old had great arts and language classes. None of that seemed...
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
AN INBETWEEN POST SOME EXAMPLES AND A LITTLE SHOW & TELL
Both of these dresses are vastly different and done in different eras and for totally different lifestyles. The first one is a Kelly Green Silk shirtwaist formal dress. This was done for a line at the very beginning of doing ‘Business Women’s Wear’. This was one of only ten in a group called...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
AFTER THIS THINGS MOVED FAST - BUT THIS WAS A LONG TIME AGO
It is easy to see this was a long time ago. My grandson asked how I could get my hair that high. Oh well. I soon will be through this part of the saga and in to working design. This was before most of you were born. My 30th birthday. 1966. We got through Christmas easily. I did get the bonus I had...
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Sunday, May 20, 2007
LIVING ONE STEP AHEAD OF DISASTER
Yes of course I can live on this. But I am in shreds like some torn remnant of cloth. A bolt caught in a farmer’s combine or some such thing. Of course I care what my parents and my husband think of me. I deserve at least this much money for my work. Why is it then that I feel like a piece of meat...
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