Posted in job, pregnancy, quick quick, real estate on May 31, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I just read a post over at Karen Road Chronicles that got me thinking.
I’m not an anti-Western medicine kind of a person. I am married to a nurse for crying out loud. But when I was about 6 weeks pregnant, I started to bleed. I didn’t think it was a big deal, but when I [...]
Posted in Farm, advice, data mining, farming on May 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I had to take a little break after my last few posts, but I’m back now.
I took childbirth and breast feeding classes from a local maternity center here in Boston. Once you have the baby, they have all sorts of activities you can go to.
They sent me their summer list, and they had a “Child [...]
Posted in Olympia Dukakis, family on May 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »
When I was a little girl, the grown ups would tell me stories about my family. One day, it was we were descended from Irish Royalty, the next day, we were actually Native Americans.
I have since found out that the We are descended from Kings is a common lie that Irish American families tell. I [...]
Posted in sleeping on May 20, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I love our daycare provider. She is very sensitive to the children, and really attends to their needs. I feel my son is totally safe with her both physically and emotionally.
She is a big townie, and still lives in the house she grew up in. She used to be a marine.
We were talking one day [...]
Posted in Olympia Dukakis, family on May 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
When I called last Christmas, he asked me how it was in New York. I told him I didn’t know, I have never lived there. My sister lives there, and I think he was confusing us.
He then wondered why I had called.
“It’s Christmas,” I said.
“Oh, it’s Christmas,” he mumbled.
Too many years of hard drinking and [...]
Posted in Olympia Dukakis, family on May 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So what to make of my mother’s life? She left an abusive situation, separated herself from her family, only to find herself in another violent home.
It makes me sad when I think about it, especially since I know it’s the story of so many women.
I think about my mother’s life differently now. Learning about her [...]
Posted in Olympia Dukakis, family on May 18, 2007 | No Comments »
This all leads to more questions. Which uncle abused her? And was he being abused? By whom?
I think I am making a correct assumption that he must have been abused in order to do something like this.
I had a therapist at the time all of this was playing out. He pointed out that most likely, [...]
Posted in Olympia Dukakis, family on May 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
After my grandmother had died, my aunt called me to tell me that she had told my sister something important. She said that I should call her. It was about Christmas time, and I was going to spend it with my sister in San Francisco. So I waited until we were in the taxi out [...]
Posted in sleeping on May 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Rhea wrote: It must have been really hard to hear your mother was abused by family members and to learn about that only after she died.
I’ve decided to answer Rhea’s observation, so I feel the need to warn you, I think this blog is going to take a dark turn.
So first, a conversation I had [...]
Posted in Grandmother, Mother's Day, Sunday, half brothers on May 13, 2007 | 3 Comments »
This mother’s day I am thinking a lot of my maternal grandmother, Dorothy. She died a few years after my mother.
I didn’t see very much of my mother’s family growing up. I later learned that she separated herself from them because of the profound abuse she experienced in childhood. But I didn’t know this until [...]
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