Our senior prom. I refused to wear what all the other girls wore: frilly dresses, a cross between scary bridesmaids’ dresses and a Grand Ole Opry costume. Including teased and over- hairsprayed high hair. Eeeek!
I did not make this dress, but chose a sleek halter dress with matching bolero jacket in a fruity floral pattern and platform sandals. I wore wooden jewellery and styled my own hair, thank you very much.

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Our homecoming dance which took place in October.
I made my dress.

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June 27 is Betty’s birthday.
She would have been 96.
She passed in 2021.
I considered her my mum, even though she was actually my mother in law. And she was fantastic in that role and a phenomenal grandmother.

Here, we were at my niece’s high school graduation party in 2012.
Family.💗

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I don’t celebrate Father’s Day.
Too many reasons to list.
But Bill provided half my DNA.
And Don gave me so many good things, like month-long camping holidays in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, Alberta. He was a brilliant landscape photographer. He attended every recital. He helped with algebra homework. He got so many things right. But he also was a violent and cruel man and I’ve spent a lifetime trying to reconcile these two sides to him. It’s exhausting and ultimately unfulfilling.

So happy Father’s Day to all the loving fathers out there.
Dog and cat dads, too.

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This was my leaving New Orleans dinner with all my tribe, but one, at a great spot with live music… Buffa’s on Esplanade in the Faubourg Marigny.

October, 2015

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