Six Generations of First Born Women

It wasn't really possible to prepare myself for this trip. But, there was a lot of stuff that needed to get done before we left, like buying a house for instance. I still had that $30,000 from the division of the spoils after Pete sold our house and moved to Maine. Erika had just started her... Sign in to see full entry.

Sometimes you don't know you are searching for something in life until you find it. So it was for me with Friedrichshof. But I'm saying this in retrospect. At the time, in 1984 when I first visited, it felt closer to an alien abduction experience. I'd made it through the 1960's and '70's without... Sign in to see full entry.

How can you really know another person? Sex is one way, but we usually learn very little during sex. Talking is another possibility, but often the words float by, some are grabbed and remembered, others dissipate in thin air, phrases are twisted around to mean something else and then they are hurled... Sign in to see full entry.

My Boston studio, with a view of the expressway and the forty story insurance building across the street was comfortingly familiar after the wide open spaces of Wyoming. But RG would not let me rest for long. He seemed genetically predisposed to challenge me, and the facade I'd carefully... Sign in to see full entry.

When it was time for us to leave Cody I was ready. As beautiful and exotic as it seemed I felt like an alien. These were just not my people. It had nothing to do with the reception I got from RG's family. As far as families go, I give them an "A" - it was me. In all this space I felt lost,... Sign in to see full entry.