APPLIANCES
Grandmother kept calendars. They begin in 1965, the year
before I was born. Or maybe she just didn=t
save the ones before that. At first they=re
AServiceMASTER
of Denver@
calendars, with no pictures, only dull green borders I
associate with 60s office files. Back then, she tracked
the usual stuff any of us might write down.
January 3, 1965 Karen left 8:am
Pat left 5:40
January 7, 1965 Mother & Marie S.L. - 8:40
January 17, 1965 Pat & Marie returned 2:-
January 24, 1965 Pat left for Fla 10:45
January 26, 1965 Dentist 11:15
January 27, 1965 Cords 10:30 Pat returned
midnight
January 30, 1965 Virginia=s
birthday
It=s
a curious mix of the formal and informal. She notes
herself as Marie, perhaps so Papa
C
APat@
C
can follow the appointments, too. But then she writes
AMother@
as if there=s
no other but her own. By then, though, they probably
already called Papa=s
mother, Theresa,
AMom
Murray.@
We, her grandchildren, always called her Grandmother,
because she said she hated the tacky sound of grandma,
drawing out the ä like the baaing of a sheep. |
