Posts by Garry
Lost all concept of time
I lay and watch movies and glance at the clock, 3am….oh well. Repeat. Feels good to be on my own time, which by normal standards is all wrong.
Read MoreThe opportunity to study abroad in Scotland over the summer.
I am a third year at Ohio State University, and was planning to study and work abroad this summer in Edinburgh, Scotland. I am a history major, plan to get my Masters in Museum Studies, and hope to work as a history curator one day. This study abroad program was a Museum Studies internship where…
Read MoreFound–time with granddaughter
My granddaughter (age 14) and I now talk for an hour every weekend, time we never had to talk. She’s usually busy with schools, friends, parties, performances, and I’m busy with work, but our clocks have stopped and we now enjoy an hour’s talk every weekend, which she says, so graciously, makes her week. A…
Read MoreA resting place
I’ve always felt guilty about having kids. I don’t know anyone else who really feels this way (or will admit it). It’s the most irrational and selfish thing I have ever done. Every day, I realize that my girls, just by being here, have done more for me than I could ever do for them.…
Read MoreI’ve found hope.
Holding History In the midst of chaos, I hold history fast in my hands, humans playing sympathies under siege singing from balconies creating amidst the chaos creating space to see seeing hope hoping to feel feeling lost, but also found finding those we’d left behind, the things we’ve left behind standing behind those on the…
Read MoreDaughters and mothers
I found in my teenage daughter a keenness to cook slow recipes at lunch time with me. I found every morning a pleasure for long slow phone calls to northern Italy for my mother. I found for the afternoons a strength to close the door and write alone again on my thesis.
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