It’s hard to picture the LA she grew up in. Bungalow apartments built around a courtyard with a big central lawn dotted with palm trees. She knew all of her immediate neighbors. The kids all congregated together at various yards and houses to play. It was a comforting existence. She knew where her grandmother lived… Continue reading Palms
Category: Frankie
Old Maid
It hadn’t been an easy life for Frankie. Considered an old maid at the age of nineteen with no prospects, she was given a one way ticket from Oregon to Palms, California to meet her new husband. She was a good Christian girl with skills in all the home arts. She could cook, sew, rig… Continue reading Old Maid
Higher Ground
Prim and proper, not considered a beauty with her thin brown hair, smallish eyes a little too close together- a nondescript hazel, She was sturdy in frame – just ripened into womanhood when she made the journey across country in a covered wagon from Iowa to Oregon. There must have been a flood that year… Continue reading Higher Ground
Gigi’s First Time
All the generations of women were gathering in celebration of their daughters who were coming of age. They would be talking about their own experiences as a way of passing oral history down to the young girls who were curious to know the story of their grandmothers’ fight for sexual freedom. The Girls were ready to… Continue reading Gigi’s First Time
Mrs. Deezy & Ernie
She knew she wasn’t supposed to bother Mrs. Deezy, Mrs. Dee for short, but she really liked her! She was funny the way she moved her false teeth around in her mouth. She popped them in and out occasionally out of habit as she worked. Kristie was sitting on the sofa in the music room… Continue reading Mrs. Deezy & Ernie