jewels sewn into his cuffs Five is a lot. Breathing stops. Just like him. Given that, it is only somewhat with tongue in cheek that I conclude: Feminism will not have achieved its goals until all women have pockets. First I went to the unemployment office – long lines, paperwork, few jobs to apply for, hopes raised and dashed. He gave me a thumbs-up and swam his little heart out while I watched — wrinkles and all. I begin taking notes. She only needed to reply to the email offering it to her. Hawaii? Some achy bones. Fabric from the ceiling liner hangs in stringy clumps like Spanish moss. His piece of time – and hers – The Bulgarians know the Russians can come. She spoke slowly and yes, softly, and made certain we all took precise notes. One day he revealed that Al, the checker, was away on his honeymoon. I can’t change that, but I can transform my anger. Why haven’t you returned my phone calls?” I ponder what I, the 61-year- old mother, should say to this grown daughter. “This is the music of heaven by a prodigiously famous composer named Handel, girls,” she said. The Wild One had offered me a way out, ironically guaranteeing that our exchange would remain civil and friendly. “Surely they’ll be able to explain this was an accident. 1907: The Expatriation Act revoked citizenship of women who married foreigners. Maybe we could no longer take the subway steps three at a time, but we went to the gym, chased after grandkids, and still worked. Well, the Title IX section of the 1972 Education Amendments that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in all federally funded education programs including sports is even more fragile. that chapped palm against my lean body. Told not to converse with the A &T guys, we snuck in conversations, sometimes eating together at the Woolworth lunch counter where sit-ins had occurred two years earlier. Are you getting a cold? They wanted to debate politics and pollution; I wanted to discuss fabric and thread. I love you so much.”. I saved the little scene just to hold and look at. I tangled the line on every cast. We had waltzed to “The Blue Danube,” listened to Mozart arias in the evening entertainment on the ship, dined on the foods and savored the wines of Vienna and Budapest, seduced into a romantic, fairy tale world. However, the coach did appreciate that the girls had taken to heart one of my dictums: when you’re near the basket, your hands should always be raised. We will make a difference. Our experience, while true to a point, is a limited perception of time. I kind of liked the idea. It is singing and sensuous and dripping with the warm, sweet juices of summer. The tiny waist — was my waist really so small? It wouldn’t be the same without you. The sound of death …. I once lived in Vegas. No one sits at a desk with their books or child’s shoes facing an audience. : An Arabic Counting Tale by MacDonald, Singapore Children’s Favourite Stories by Taylor, Quail’s Egg; A Folk Tale from Sri Lanka by Troughton, Cat Man of Aleppo by Irene Latham and **Karim Shamsi-Basha author from Syria**, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. I could see doors slamming, laundry hurled, chairs overturned in the frenzy. But when she went away to help one of my older sisters who had given birth, I ached for her. Shoes could be sold on the black market. He continued his smooth commentary about storage even as he assaulted me with his brazen sexual tension. He began this transformation by sparking a coalition of teachers, workers, and students (including third graders, Griselda and Elian) who spread out through the countryside and slew illiteracy in one year. We hugged and cried together. I told him I was very excited to meet him because his book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, published in 1960, helped me speak out when I discovered that my high school history textbook only gave a short paragraph to the Nazi genocide during World War II. Buying and selling real estate usually requires a fair degree of forethought, but spontaneity is possible, even when it involves a six-figure expenditure. I don’t know how, I now think I’m about 70 years old, but there’s no one to verify this. A live snake dangled over the stick. Only at late-night churnings do I think of Grace, of the dip of her lips, the sad lowering of her eyes that recess I left her alone on the playground. Figured out, that is, why we received so much poetry (and such spectacularly pulpy, yummy, juices-running- down-your-chin poetry it is) in response to this issue’s call for Short Takes. It remains to be seen. Sixteen hours of kill me now. I like to characterize Aliki’s poetic “ear” as the equivalent of a musician’s perfect pitch. Person-to-person: “I have a call from___ for___.”. Kohl’s (beauty section remodel), 14443 FM 2920; 9. I respond in support, while countering racist comments from others. Craigslist has listings for golf clubs for sale in the Savannah / Hinesville area. I almost never turn it on. Her father and his great-grandfather were brothers. 1890 : dix pour cent (fr) b. He had struggled at first. And I think she should be settling down. “Thank you, Janet.”. Well, there was the RKO Newsreel. “You totally surpassed my expectations! I fixed us chocolate sundaes. At dawn, I often walked into her empty room, sat at her desk, watched the sun peek over the rooftops, trying to feel her, so many miles away, then turned and strolled down the stairs, another day in an empty nest. Raizel felt a little chilled. He did not understand why he was unable to convince his colleague Pat Williams, an equally liberal, thoughtful, and generous person – who happened to be Black and a woman. She looked like she’d witnessed the carving of the Rosetta stone personally, but seemed unprepared for the likes of us. Rain was falling; the sun was long gone. He does have a name: Abdul. stops me in my tracks I saw you Bitch! The same darkness fills her months later as she stands on the deck of the passenger ship. In New York, she chauffeured but if it’s best by October 3rd, I won’t be surprised. I couldn’t remember which way was west, and I never knew if I was going north or south. In those early days of my former marriage, I watched Sunday football (“What color is our team?”), baked bread, clipped coupons, even tried to learn to knit, and left writing on the shelf where it festered and fumed. Take it or Leave it! Yes, true, and I’ve never regretted that choice. There is another song, more apt in so many ways, that we should instead have chosen. As a teenager I adorned my jeans with embroidery and ribbons sewn on the hems. Beardstown turned out to be a bigger font of gossip than expected. Long-simmering, well-earned, sometimes overwhelming and occasionally stupefying anger. The floors were uneven, my feet braced as though on the ocean, keeping balance as I wandered from booth to booth. In the mid-1980s, this stay-at-home mom with four children had shelved her dreams of writing and making use of her English major. One of the girls was my next door neighbor; I called out to her. I took a deep breath remembering not to say, again, “Why can’t they?” That’s what they do. Of course I always feel the absence of my loved ones—but each and every morning, first thing, I think of them the most. The young visitor stands quietly by, understanding only the word America repeated several times in the rush of conversation in Slovak. You say white supremacy was wrong, are glad it’s gone. The Pine Hills community where I lived was sponsoring a crafts fair on the village green. At the corner she sneaked a look back, then dashed off towards the Q. Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey by Ruurs, Girl Who Wore Too Much by Margaret Read MacDonald, Thai text by Supaporn Vathanaprida, illustrated by Yvonne Lebrun Davis  **Vathanaprida is from Thailand**. Jill hatched a plan. from around here. Thirty years ago, as an RN, I opened my practice, Mind/Body Health Care. Is this the next step? She had volunteered and tithed. With fuzz removed    there is but Especially since you’ve insulted the white supremacists by saying that they are gone – and good riddance. Some boys started taunting us. He’s startled, like I’ve propositioned him to do something unseemly. When a conservative Republican government came in after a liberalizing Democratic one, she pointed out, “You sustained multiple body blows to your right to privacy, as the Reagan administration tried to impose ‘squeal’ rules on you for seeking birth control information.” Such things still happen: The Hobby Lobby decision, giving some employers a say in women’s contraceptive choices, was handed down just two years ago. and fell into bed in the liminal dusk. And there is – who knew? “These yours?”. Joan and I put our kids on the school bus, donned our polyester pants suits, and took off. Hard. “We still have time for another game,” I said. Kirsten sent us a startling photo of men pressing newborns to their chests, while studying name books. We’re each no more than an illuminated mote, I’ve stepped into and out of men’s hearts, women’s lives, and all over my children’s feelings. As our paddy wagon pulled away, I looked out the window and saw my sixteen-year-old daughter just as she saw me. pinned to her chest Her father ordered him from the shop. I hope to write again soon, but you know how hectic life is. Yet, more frightening is anticipating the response of my classmates. He’d release us if we promised not to do it again. My older daughter lays her prayer wand on the coffee table. Men have been coached to do that. I told my broker, “It will sell within a week.”  I had no reason to think this. Carlos retrieves the picnic basket, the blankets, and several pillows. My father, an only child, had told me it was somewhat of a lonely life. On Monday, Maxine knew where Marty and Francie sat in the cafeteria, so I went up to their table. On Monday, I marched into James’ office, closed the door, gave my notice. Freckled and folksong I smile as I look him in the eye. “Not voting for Hillary,” he went on…. On the gate a sign: PRIVATE, RESIDENTS ONLY, NO TRESPASSING. I milked our old cow, warming my hands on the teats, leaning my head against her warm flank, sharing the beauty of a winter morning with her. Short Takes: So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu. Filipino Celebrations: A Treasury of Feasts and Festivals by Liana Romulo, illustrated by Corazon Dandan-Albano (2011) **Author and illustrator are both from the Philippines**. Segregation was a fact of life in Detroit at the time, even in the hospital nursery. She picks up the binoculars, placing her elbows firmly on the ledge, and straightens her arthritic back. 1393 Progress Way #901 Eldersburg, MD 21784. It was her turn to howl as he moved her away from him, rolling her onto and off her bad right knee to land on her bad left shoulder, and roll off again. I detest amusement parks, but I had taken my ten-year-old granddaughter, who said this was her favorite ride. hair short and neat “It’s a superior model,” the woman said, stroking the teak cabinet with her fingertips. As women become educated, they gain independence; domestic violence rates go down, there are fewer children in poverty, and small businesses flourish. Oh! Lucky veered the taxi along the shoulder and drove us closer to the pedestrian walkway. Even the good guys in the dominant class don’t easily understand the need for it. versus ¡Libertad!). I was so wrapped up in my fear and depression that when two young men came walking along the river bank I retreated to the middle of the river rather than have to talk to them. Once more down the stairs, and I settle myself onto the living room couch. I don’t want to write this; it’s post-mortem. No one could believe it. But my mind became blurred by my latest sewing project, an autumn scene. Always helping people. Perhaps the young man will meet some of them on his journey. As was customary during my childhood, has Sharman observed how conversations in her home cascade into world events? I wish I knew the name of things that grow—annuals? We’re just east of Irving and Damen, forty hundred north and twenty hundred west. Years ago, when I first moved here and was furnishing a brand new home, the theme of the decade was “country” style, and I embraced it fully. On the wide polished desk, bronzed baby shoes shine next to three books: the Bible, Profiles in Courage, and Ben Franklin’s Autobiography. As I pointed to my red running visor, I could hear one of them exclaim, “Look, she is one of us!”). They “oohed” at Ms. Lea’s pink chiffon, “ah ha-ed” at Lou’s fuchsia suit, and gasped when Mayor Barnes, Paradise Falls’ most eligible widower, walked in, grasped Lou’s hand, and said, “Yessiree, a ripe peach is worth waiting for!”. My heart was racing and my hands were sweating as I opened the apartment door. Back then we edited out of our blue-collar existence anything that didn’t make sense, anything extra or useless. And I had a briefcase. While the ocean shimmers Bitter, he vowed to send my brothers to college. When I was in Walmart some years ago, I found myself caught between keeping my mouth shut—or pitching a good one. I ran my way to sanity. I heard a few giggles. Yet I know my intentions, for my daughters and for myself. the one so weak she can barely stand He holds the water straw to her lips. Who knows. I swung alone on its sleek surface, in the shadows of the swaying porch light. Once a week we convened at a Leaguer’s kitchen table to review our progress, shed our humility, and rant. I wept when I peeked at his frozen features and pale eyelids. Anayida falls asleep after fighting with her brothers at breakfast. I just kept out of his way every Sunday. Her highest aspiration for herself was to be a teacher, and she taught in the Houston public schools until the move to New Jersey cut that short. where they were born. All About the Philippines: Stories, Songs, Crafts, and Games for Kids by Gidget Roceles Jimenex, illustrated by Corazon Dandan-Albano. Everything returned to normal. A sudden screech and I was thrown forward. She doesn’t complain, but who doesn’t love to design rather than sort? She comes out her front door with her purse on her shoulder, and on the way, we’re joined by Nancy with her purse. our our school prizes, concert going, museum visits, The curtain screeching back on metal rods. Two taps. When I was seventeen my mother looked up from her sewing machine and said, “When you get married I shall make you the most beautiful wedding dress. As a lawyer, I was proud to be part of that system. Alverno is a Catholic women’s college, likely with a zero tolerance for teachers seducing students or colleagues. I am thrilled; Emma looks up and smiles. We both can choose change. She took off to fetch me from the “colored” section. When I worked in Bulgaria, “after the fall,” I took my collection to colleagues there. At the time I was ironing my husband’s shirt. Apparently not. Nameless. With every crunch We rollicked in juice and hungry luck that day. Algie was sitting in his bouncy chair and squirming, pushing his fist into his mouth, drooling and crying, exhausted. When the fruit trees start crowding one another’s canopy, my father is reluctant to uproot one of them. We who were young, who had no fear of consequences, who believed our lives would last forever, could read Frazer, write term papers on him, and still not comprehend, as now we do, that the harvest king is not merely the sympathetic magic of a naïve and savage time. judgment come next judgment day. One of them is speaking with a great deal of intensity. The days are shorter, the air is cooling off and the garden is filled with reeds, yellow and orange mums instead of tomatoes, herbs and the fragile warm weather pink and purple flowers. I can’t imagine how either could serve justice. Emma chuckles and says I look whiter then my lab coat. One is an olive-green corduroy jumper that I wear on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays with blouses of different colors and matching belts. “You know.” She looked sideways at me, accusingly. That evening I wore a long flowered skirt and delighted in my husband’s considerable skill at dancing. My condition, if you like naming things, could be called OCD/Eavesdropping. the one who was crying and suffering from cramp I was rather pleased with my comeback. And stop. By the time I was old enough to enter high school, I walked with a limp. ever. 4.8 out of 5 stars 30. I returned home well after midnight, my feet bloody and swollen, purple bruises on my thighs from the garter belt fasteners. So-called Nativists attacked the immigrants, decrying their supposed impact on the economy, but even more their Catholic religion. When you died there was nothing. She drove in Atlanta. He had the reputation of a loner, but had some close friends. I let the wetness encompass me until the water boils away and the pan, emptied, burns dry and white residue scorches to smoking black. She traced the sign of the cross over her starched, black-robed body. OK, I said. her bowels were knotted and twisted with the fear and bile that is the stuff and refuse of abuse. On good days, court orders were effective, especially for those men who seemed truly baffled to find official papers in their hands, reprimanding them for smacking their wives in what they viewed as their “own private business.” They were humbled, or shamed, into compliance. Next Macha called in the law; the sheriff had to listen to her outrage about her downstairs neighbor. Sit on the top step of Epidaurus and hear a guide tear paper or drop a pin. I feel I have made a terrible mistake and that I really cannot do this. The body’s rust-free. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Laura stifled a laugh. we lived on a farm, so she was entitled. How about we just kiss and hold each other again?”. After their eightieth birthday, the new preacher thought they should retire from organizing everything, but Leanne LeDane remained firmly in charge. The parents meet Sunday nights to discuss and refine arrangements. Traditions, holidays, the aroma of roasts in the oven, windows steaming from baking and boiling, sounds reverberating up one story and back down, a house that breathed, sighed, groaned with life. He spoke to a large crowd in the Student Center. They looked at her, startled by the intrusion. But when she gets a strong pull on her line, Nina works hand over hand to bring that fish in. And women (we were all called girls then, or, at the most, ladies) were in the world to be looked at, admired, lusted after. But every once in a while, something will set it off, and in seconds it is at the boiling point. An Online Magazine of the Arts by Women Over Sixty. I knew where I was, what lay ahead. We were spanked more often and much harder, for sure. Mesmerized by marbles heated on the side of Truth – The union furnished tables and chairs for headquarters. To float around  as a disembodied being. Notice all the ashes have already blown out of cup. We arrived at twilight. Then I came in one day to see a lock box on the thermostat. We yell for Tom. And the most vexing and least answerable question of all: what will happen in the world after I die? I was in Washington, DC with a group that came from a Quaker conference in New Jersey to demonstrate in support of the Poor People’s Campaign. Every year when we return after the seven months of being away, we encounter unexpected surprises. And fifty years later, it’s grapefruits from Arizona The room is quiet. He gives her a single paper flower and tells her to plant it to grow her own tree, which she does. Not sleeping. My heart has started to pound so hard it might burst from my sweater, smash itself to the ground and . I shook it and he quickly left. In the run-up to the First World War, most English people were hostile to the suffragettes. I refused to pick them up until unexpected visitors gaped in disbelief at underwear lying on the living room rug. We raised butterflies, photographed butterflies and they were a very important symbol in our lives. “Choose the one nearest the beach.” “No, choose the one with the fenced-in yard for the dog.” Why is there so often a dog who needs a yard? I ran down the hill from my school right away when I got her note saying, “See me. “If no one volunteers,” the principal said, “the girls will not play this year.”. I prefer to think that, during that frightening time when no one was safe from bombs falling randomly from the sky, people just preferred to read about the good in one another. “Your honor, my client pleads not guilty and requests a jury trial.” I heard the firm sound of my words with satisfaction. Barbara was the toady who ran to meet the demands of her older sibling, and Susan, my mother, absorbed the figurative blows that kept her silent and timid. I hope you have a great day. I drove her to the interview site and showed her where the bus stop was so she’d know how to get there by herself. But, unless Trump uses the pandemic and the protests as cover for a coup – a no longer unthinkable possibility – there will be an election in November. She asked me to help. We are not laughing together. We opened the windows wider to allow breezes. Yes. grown on soot and locomotion, he took his long fingers What syllables is he contemplating? And that may be why they are Persimmon Tree readers and writers. The feisty feminist political broadsheet I worked on that year, The Getting It Gazette [see Editor’s Page], proclaimed, “For every six Senate seats, we’ll want another ladies room!”. We both saw the video of a police officer kneel on George Floyd’s neck. From my sister-in-law: “No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities.” From my daughter: a beautiful picture of a butterfly and flower and the note “Thank you for being you.”  From my niece: “You are an example of strength; you never let adversity stand in your way.” From another granddaughter: “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you think, and loved more than you’ll ever know.”. Then I could go back and read the library book. It’s not that I expected it. I felt the beat of my blood. Were more informative than newspapers, and much more entertaining, Mother grew up in a burg down south where gossip was ladled higher than cornsticks and cream gravy. But she was also a child of the 1950s, of Oklahoma (on the scrabbling, southwestern fringe of America’s so-called heartland), and from a family who, as Warren herself described it, was teetering “on the ragged edge of the middle class.” Warren’s mother called herself a housewife, as women proudly did then, even though, to keep the bank from foreclosing on the family’s home, she worked a full-time, minimum-wage job at Sears. With hindsight, it beggars belief that an intelligent journalist should advise her peers to re-organise their work schedules to leave work an hour before their husband left his. I felt too old to be in the store. Our music teacher Miss Ball was one of my many image-of-God figures — worthy of worship. “Oh, and I forgot to mention, Eva. And the big wheel run by the grace of God And so today, I walked around the old wooden building, and the craft show. But what you said makes some sense, too.”, At lunch, in the teacher’s lounge, Sharon regaled us with stories about her classes. When Germany’s Ruhr Valley industrialized, Oma’s grandfather, a farm-to-farm peddler, expanded his cart into Röttgen’s department stores and prospered.

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