Memories
An Anniversary August 9, 1974
50 incredible years. An anniversary There are moments in our lives that change the course of the future. Aug.9, 1974 was one of those days. Nixon resigned. A year before tragedy struck our family and took the life of my sweet sister leaving 3 helpless children and our mother destroyed. I miscarried our baby because of the stress. But we survived the sad year and we're hoping I was pregnant again. New life was needed! Somehow we survived and we found optimism in the midst of that hell. Charlie Daniels was singing "The devil went down to Georgia". My husband Dan was driving us to meet friends at Oak Knoll in Ashland for dinner and dancing. I said no alcohol for me! We were excited about canning from the huge garden we raised. Suddenly there's 2 lanes of traffic at a standstill on the freeway. Dan slammed the brakes and the car was bouncing off guard rails. No seat belts. He tried to hold me down from bouncing all over the car and disl...
In May of 2003, I moved to Hornbrook. The only place I could afford. I was dysfunctional with my back. The only encounters I had with my daughter and family was insulting and abusive. My son asked me, What do you want Mom?
ReplyDeleteI said I just wanted to stop being abused, I was sick of the pain. Just peace, that's all!
Every Saturday morning since, I have waited for them to drive up. It's never happened and it never will, but every Saturday is the same.
After Daddy died inain 1963 we went in debt burying him and getting the body back from Colorado where we were moving, I couldn't keep Mama out of financial trouble. It was so hard.
ReplyDeleteI'd come home from school and she had bought something from a door to door salesman. A sewing machine...big ironer.
I walked in when she had just signed a contract to remodel the house. It was a two story duplex. At least we had $40 a month income from the apartment upstairs.. they put the staircase inside, so no more apartment! I ran that guy out of the house with Mama crying. He forced her to honor the contract and it was horrible..a staircase 18 " wide. I got a mattress stuck in it
I don't know how we paid it off . She went to work in nursing homes. I did everything from mowing lawns to selling fuller brush and was still an A student.
I was a damn good kid!
I did nothing but work!
Then Darrell comes along..he had me catching night crawlers, selling them and giving him the money!
He never spent a cent on me!
Milich said I was an idiot.
Sure was... And that's exactly how he used me too.
It's no wonder I was nothing but a slave to all you people.
I just want to forge