I have one baby shoe. It is gray. The paint is chipping off of the toe. The shoe use to be white. I think it is made of leather, but I can't read the label as it is covered in gray spray paint. My mother told me, "I asked your father to get your baby shoes bronzed, and he sprayed them with gray …
Keeping secrets
My mother said, “I will kill Uncle Carl if I see him.”
My mother said she would kill Uncle Carl if she ever saw him again. Carl went into the woods when we drove to the Yukon to see friends in 1972. My father called his friends and told them we were coming to visit, "Tell Carl to leave. My wife will kill him if she sees him." Carl Schaack was not in …
I escaped from a Giant: my past
Today as I was walking out of the movie theater, a Giant tried to grab me. He almost caught me. I was scared. Then I realized the Giant was only made of paper. I walked away from the Giant; opened the front door of the theater and walked outside. My children and I walked across the parking …
