I was the daughter of a clergyman
a suffragette
a teacher
a Girl Guides’ leader
interested
in nursing
books and horseback riding
a religious idealist

I loved an artist
left with him
lived through 4 wars
worked hard
for the meatballs of life
gave birth to 3 wonderful
fantastic children
so this really
hasn’t been
too bad.

Ham

poem in the style of the Spoon River Anthology by Signe Hammarsten-Jansson, mother of Tove Jansson

"Barney. Doogie. Average names elude me."

Six word memoir by Neil Patrick Harris

"Bon Appetit!"

"As our ferryboat from Denmark made its way up the winding Oslo Fjord in May 1959, we looked at the granite boulders and high cliffs covered with pine tress, sniffed the cool, salty-piney air, and said to each other: 'Norway is just like Maine!' Which it was, and wasn't."

My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme