It was the first day of a much-hyped international movie shoot and my first shoot in a foreign country. I was twenty-three and I had arrived in South America two days earlier, after more than fourteen hours of flying. Jet lag, stress and lack of sleep had me on edge. We were shooting at an […]
Today a woman somewhere is laughing, weeping, grieving, or celebrating. Someone is giving birth; someone is losing a loved one to death. Relationships are forming, others are ending. For some, this will be an ordinary day filled with many of the same activities as yesterday. For others, something unexpected will suddenly make this day unforgettable, one that they may tell their children and grandchildren about in the future. In the same way that we are curious about how our grandmothers lived, future generations will be interested in learning about what an ordinary day was like in our lives.
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One Woman's Day
November 22 – Piano Days
There, it was. She lived here. I nervously gazed upwards. I saw a white house with sea-green shingles. My father gently nudged me, “Heidi, it’s time. Let’s go in.” We cautiously opened the door of the white picket fence, climbed up the weather-beaten steps, and rang the brass doorbell. We heard footsteps make their way. […]
November 15 – The Morning After Closing Day
The morning after closing day, the quiet wakes me up. Startled, I look at the clock. It is six and ten minutes. It is past my usual wake-up time. Then I remember that we closed the motel the day before and dig deep back under the covers. The regular hum of the cars on the […]
November 8 – My Mother
It was about 4 A.M. when my mother died in her bed in St Vincent’s Hospital. When the phone rang my body told me what had happened. Chills ran up and down my arms. I felt mom’s death in my bones. My husband and I went quickly to the hospital, only ten minutes away where […]
November 2 – A Morning
I woke up with an ache in my spine. Air conditioner was blowing at a low steady low noise. It was 90 minutes till 8 am. Time was ticking. I opened the window to the west. I could hear faint morning calls of sparrows from the near by bald cypress . While the espresso was brewing, […]
November 1 – Grammy’s Soul Cakes
October was evaporating into November. The air outside was noticeably cooler, the brisk autumn wind tousling my hair around my face. The wind was sufficient enough that the trees moaned, their leaves either loose on the ground or hanging by the loosest of threads. I buttoned my corduroy jacket and scurried home, torn between keeping […]
