Big One came home from day care today - said she wanted me to make a kite for her.
I was immediately transported back to when I was her age. I made my first kite when I was 4 or 5. As was the custom among children in the 70s in Trinidad, you made kites - you didn’t buy one. You went to the…
May I just say that her timing is impeccable. The big kite-flying time is Easter weekend, and I’m sure that people still flying kite all over. At least (in Barbados) you can buy your kite at the side of the road (in most cases, not a Chinese knockoff). I suspect that the same is true in trinidad and Tobago.
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I don’t know the story behind her Twitter name, but that’s where I first “met” Simone - on Twitter. We are close in age and life stage, and we share many things in common. We both have young children - although she is raising hers by herself (nuf respect). We are both pursuing our PhDs - although she’s further along in hers than I am in mine. We are both from Trinidad - although she is “from South”, which means that were it not for Twitter, chances are we never would have met. (Is so town people does be!) But met we did, first online and then in person, when I realized that the woman was more beautiful than she ever let show online, more generous with her time than being online would allow (she took me and my family on a ‘Know Your Country’ tour of parts of Central Trinidad I had never seen), and had dimples in her cheeks deep enough to swim in.
She is beautiful.
Okay - that’s not exactly true.
She can’t drive a stick shift. She can’t balance a clutch and change gears. She never learned how to, because she never had to. She learned to drive on an automatic, took her test on an automatic, and has only ever driven automatics. And so, I give her shit -…
Cosine xinfinity.
took the old film camera out the other day. Batteries had died. Replaced em, camera works fine now. Must remember to take out some film and shoot some egrets one of these good days.
