The stories are hard to write. It’s hard to go back there. It’s hard to realize how few separate emotions I had as a child, and the few I did have were entirely what I now call survival emotions.
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This page has the following sub pages.
- *MY CHILDHOOD — MEMORY FRAGMENT NOTES
- **MY NOTES ON MOTHER’S DARK RAINBOW DREAM
- *Dad’s April 2, 1960 Letter to Alaska Land Office
- *My Childhood Guardian Angel on the Mountain Top
- MY BABY BOOK
- *1951 – October 15 – Linda’s 6-week Checkup (and brother John)
- *AGE 2 – CINDY BORN – 1953
- *Age 3-4: Link to my mother’s 1955 diary
- *Age 3 – 3 children with grandmother, closeup of me and grandmother
- *Age 3 – THE TOILET BOWL
- *Age 4 – THE BEDSPREAD
- *Age 4 – THE FIREWORKS
- *Age 5 – Childhood Stories Sept. 1956 through Aug. 1957
- *Age 6 – Childhood Stories Sept. 1957 through Aug. 1958
- +Age 7 – Childhood Stories Sept. 1958 through Aug. 1959
- *Age 8 – Childhood Stories Sept. 1959 through Aug. 1960
- *Age 9 – Childhood Stories Sept. 1960 through Aug. 1961
- *Age 10 – Childhood Stories Sept. 1961 through Aug. 1962
- *Age 11 – Childhood Stories Sept. 1962 through Aug. 1963
- *Age 12 – Childhood Stories Sept. 1963 through Aug. 1964
- *Age 13+ – MY MOTHER’S RIDICULOUS LIST
- *Age 14 – DIRTY DIAPER AND PEPPLES IN MY KNEES
- *Age 14 – Sept. 1965 through Aug. 1966
- +Age 14 – SCRUBBED IN THE TUB
- +Age 14 – MIRACLE IN THE PARKING LOT – DISSOCIATION
- *Age 14 – SILENT TREATMENT
- *Age 14 – Gardening and the Sabotage
- *Age 15 – MY ‘VISION’ – ALONE NAKED IN THE WOODS SINGING
- *Age 15 – FORCED TO WATCH AN ALASKAN SUNRISE
- *Age 17 – What My Parents Taught Me About Racism
- *Age 18 – LEADING UP TO GONE FROM HOME