by bZar | Apr 25, 2012 | Childhood Memories
“And how do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet?…We begin by coveting what we see every day. Don’t you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don’t your eyes seek out the things you want?” ~ Hannibal Lecter Strolling the shopping mall...
by bZar | Aug 5, 2008 | Childhood Memories
For the past few days I have been driving my daughter’s boyfriend’s Honda Civic 5 speed. Why? Well, because Jen can’t drive stick. Her boyfriend is getting another car in a few days – one with an automatic transmission – so we’ve swapped cars until then.Learning...
by bZar | Jul 25, 2008 | Childhood Memories
Ok, don’t laugh but this has been a childhood dream of mine – I want chickens. Somewhere deep inside this city-born gal lurks a farmer. Maybe it was all those summers I spent on my uncle’s farm mucking out horse stalls or sitting on my grandma’s porch shelling peas...
by bZar | Feb 17, 2008 | Childhood Memories
I have come to realize that I have high expectations. I demand a lot of myself and push myself to achieve. As I write this I’ve just finished watching the documentary In the Shadow of the Moon and I’m remembering the joy, excitement, sense of adventure and...
by bZar | Feb 2, 2008 | Childhood Memories
In my life I’ve loved three men. The last man fathered my two children. The second man broke my heart. I woke up this morning thinking of the first man I ever loved. I met Tom when I joined the youth group at our parish church. He was seventeen and I was twelve. To...
by bZar | Nov 4, 2007 | Childhood Memories
That’s me. I wasn’t even a year old in this picture and here I was zooming around a parking lot under the el, somewhere in the Bronx in, (oh my god) a walker! What were my parents thinking! Sheesh, by today’s standards they might as well let me run with...
