There were many other families that lived in the little cove of those garden apartments. There was Felicia. Goldman…. I think was her last name, ….maybe. She wasn’t so much a friend, but more of a babysitter for me, someone I was entrusted to, to get me to school and back safely. Actually, there was …
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Present Day 1 of 365
Day 1 of 365 – January 1, 2020 New year, new me? Doubt it. Same me, same shit, different day. I wanted to write my story from beginning to the end but there really is no beginning, no definitive one anyway, and the end is not yet here. So, how do I begin this? I …
Those Happy Days
Not long after moving out of Grandma and Grandpa’s house on Long Island, we moved to a small garden apartment in Queens. Alley Pond Park Garden Apartments in Bayside NY. I might have been somewhat happier living in the house with Grandma and Grandpa. I don’t recall but I can’t recall a whole lot about …
I have homework
Yes. Homework. I’m stuck. I feel stuck. I’m no-where and my thoughts seem to be everywhere to a point where I am not thinking about anything except, that I am stuck. I had gone to my therapy session, my first session in over two months. The summer flew by and there was always something to …
So much…..
So much for chronologizing Tierney and Hugo’s Honeymoon, I mean our honeymoon. Lol Once the ship sailed out to sea all WiFi and internet went down for me. It was fine though. Being able to tune out for a while was kind of awesome. For just a little while I was able to pretend my …
Sea and Sky
Day 1 of Tierney’s Honeymoon on Royal Caribbean-Allure of the Sea. I like saying that we are on Tierney and Hugo’s Honeymoon with them. Lol. It just makes me laugh. They got married yesterday in a non-traditional wedding ceremony at the Curtis Mansion in Miami Florida. I say non-traditional because this one was so more …
Roof over my Head
Grandma and Grandpa had a little boy. It was a “late in life pregnancy”. He was three years younger than me. 20 years younger than the Giant. In the Philippines, before I came to the United States, I was the youngest child, the baby. I felt secure, happy and loved in the arms of my …
New House New Rules
We moved into the Giant’s parents house. I would come to call them “Grandma and Grandpa”. We lived up in the attic rooms of their house. Mom and the Giant had one side of the attic and I had the room on the other side. The steps leading up to the attic rooms were high …
A Cold December
On a cold night in December, I think it was night, we finally landed at JFK International Airport. Standing in this vast open room in the middle of the night, not a sole was around, well, maybe a few but certainly not many people were about. I hear yelling from high up above me and …
What I Remember…..
I remember my Lola, …….vaguely. I remember I felt warmth from her. I remember her smile for me. I remember vaguely the Tenement Building I lived in with Lola. I remember another girl who lived somewhere in the same Tenement Building. I remember being in her apartment one evening and I remember how she wanted …
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