Posted by Barely Knit Together on Aug 19, 2009 in
The Soap Box
This is an open letter to teenagers. I know they won’t read it. And if they do, they probably won’t really get it for a while yet. But maybe if I put something incendiary in here, it will capture their attention just long enough to lodge in their brains and be remembered at some later [...]
Tags: growing up, high school, nostalgia, parenting, teenagers
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Aug 8, 2009 in
Writing
My daughter got her driver’s license last week, which has made me feel kind of old, and kind of nostalgic. We bought her a 1995 VW Jetta from a friend of mine and just finished getting it road-ready, but she still can’t drive it since it’s a manual transmission.
But I can.
I took that car out [...]
Tags: bad case of the what-ifs, driving, loss, nostalgia, teenagers, youth
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Mar 5, 2009 in
Motherhood
Look, y’all – I need help!
Tomorrow is my friend Melissa’s birthday. She will be 36 whopping years old (OMG, that’s old, right?)
Anyway, here’s what she was doing in the 90’s: having small children.
I mean, they came out as babies in the usual way, but she had four of them, starting very young. And every couple [...]
Tags: 1990's, birthday, friendship, Melissa, memories, nostalgia
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Oct 20, 2008 in
Uncategorized
Autumn in Virginia has begun. The first cold morning found me shivering under too-thin blankets, and even the shine of blue sky wasn’t enough to warm me. The cold slows down my blood, my thoughts. So I do what I always do when I get that feeling of change and a slow ending, or a [...]
Tags: cold, cooking, family, food, home, housekeeping, legacy, nostalgia, Sewing