April 12, 1965

Also 1973, when I discovered my mother was a person

April 12,1965

I'm Telling You Now - Freddie and the Dreamers

Tuesday! Viet Nam is horrible! It's a horrible war and I wish we weren't in there.

By the way, yesterday I cut my own hair! It's the first time and it looks OK.

GOODBYE DEAR DIARY!!

April 12, 1973

Wow, what a day…I am suddenly very tired…after all, it is 12:30 EST and I was up at 6. BUT…flying is indeed tremendous, especially take-off. We flew in a DC8, which I guess is big but not extremely...I was feeling light-headed, but I believe it was the Dramamine, not the flying. Once you’re up, you’re up and you just sort of sit there and let it take you to Chicago. I would have taken pictures from the plane, but there wasn’t much to take pictures of once we got above the clouds…the lakes were clear, that’s all. I’ll admit I was a little scared when we came down, since it was a a lot bumpier. (They don’t call it the Windy City for nothing.)

Aunt Grace is extremely nice…I believe one of the gifts of maturity is seeing people as they really are…Mom and Grace and I talking about marijuana and menstruation and how we discovered the facts of life. And yes, Mom is a nice PERSON, too. I think I love her. I guess she ceased to be a monolith in my mind. MOM. She’s Esther…and my mother,  and I am beginning to see where we get along and where we don’t. Uncle Tom is a rather neat person…not at all as I remember him, so clean-cut and trim in his pilot’s uniform. All in all, a nice beginning to what promises to be a great trip. 

Now that I’m in bed, I miss Jim

April 2006

Why does it seem like this diary is a series of incredibly inappropriate non sequiturs?

April 2023

Because life is a series of incredibly inappropriate non sequiturs.