Ninety years ago, when my father was five or six, my grandparents bought a house in Bryn Mawr. Sixty-five years later, my sister and her husband bought that house after my grandparents died, and now, I’m just waking up in what used to be my grandmother’s sitting room. I remember her glass-fronted hutch to my right where she kept her keepsakes. My favorites were a 6-inch porcelain Peter Rabbit and a pink marble cat. The last time I slept in this house I was three. My only memory of that visit was my grandmother vigorously drying my hair after my evening bath. She insisted it be fully dry before I went to bed so I wouldn’t catch cold. She rubbed and rubbed with a big gray towel and I liked it. We both laughed when I turned to the mirror and my hair was floating this way and that around my head.
More of this story, PLEASE! That was only the intro! What happens next?? Honestly- I need more.
You so remind me of my childhood. When i go “home”, mostly everyone is gone (except a couple of friends). However, every footstep on every street triggers a memory. Every where I look.
You are so lucky, Bar. You wrote about it beautifully. They should each get a copy, except the one who irritated you. We moved too much for me to know anybody anymore except for a very few people I remember well, but where are they now? Poobably right where they were when I left, or at east somewhere nearby.
More of this story, PLEASE! That was only the intro! What happens next?? Honestly- I need more.
You so remind me of my childhood. When i go “home”, mostly everyone is gone (except a couple of friends). However, every footstep on every street triggers a memory. Every where I look.
Sometimes overwhelming…
In retrospect, wonderful.
But- back to you. More, please!!
You are so lucky, Bar. You wrote about it beautifully. They should each get a copy, except the one who irritated you. We moved too much for me to know anybody anymore except for a very few people I remember well, but where are they now? Poobably right where they were when I left, or at east somewhere nearby.