Six Generations of First Born Women

More airline food, dinner, followed quickly by breakfast, now lunch. Wish I was in bed. Odd sensation of the plane moving backwards. I think of Otto's face grinning at me, makes me shudder. A couple of 40 year olds, newly wed, sat next to me from Boston to London, on their honeymoon, married just... Sign in to see full entry.

"Why do you have to analyze and dissect every relationship?" So says my mother to me during the phone call right before I left to catch my flight to Vienna. I'd written her a long letter which she did not answer. It upset her. Her response to me reminds me of my exhusband, Pete, every time I tried... Sign in to see full entry.

Packed plane, screeching baby directly to my left. Lotti, Rise, Joe, Bill and Erika all came to the airport to see me off. For them it must seem like I'm going to Never-NeverLand. Things seem to be fine with Erika and Bill. He came to the house early to take me to the airport. He brought his... Sign in to see full entry.

Anxiety attacks, headaches and diarrhea, this can't be me. Why is it so bad? As the day of my departure for my second trip to Friedrichshof looms closer I begin to have an inkling of RG's problems before he leaves for the same destination. The first time I went with him and Erika it was a lark. I... Sign in to see full entry.

Something popped inside my head and for a moment took me out of my self-absorbed state of mind. I was waiting for Erika to come home from work. It was hot for early September. Summers lingering last reminder that it's not gone yet. Erika and I had started running together. She is way faster and more... Sign in to see full entry.