Monthly Archives: January 2016
Textiles in Kasongan Village
After we left the first pottery place in Kasongan village we went up an alley and came in the back door of a combination fabric and hat making operation. It was an odd place. The fabric was in an area that looked like a three sided car port with one side open not to the street but to the porch of the house it was attached to. Inside this area a couple of women worked industriously at decorating fabric. I’m […]
Suzie’s House 438: Conversation Bombs
As much as Emma loved her father, she wasn’t exactly eager to confront him at the crack of dawn as she was headed for the bathroom to shower the smell of cigarette smoke off of her skin and hair. She could too easily imagine him driving himself into a self righteous frenzy over what he must see as her bad behavior. But it wasn’t like she’d been smoking herself. And if she’d been in a bar, it was only to […]
New Years 2016
Did you have a good New Years Eve this year? Mine was tamer than ever. I haven’t been to a New Years party in a loooooong time. Even in my 20’s I did fewer and fewer of them. But for many years I went out for dinner and a movie. This time we didn’t even do that. I’d caught a special on a package of meat at the grocery store, and didn’t want it to go to waste, so we […]
