Giving In To The Temptation of Mediocrity Vox 2008-03-03T08:12:38Z VeryScaryCarnival http://veryscarycarnival.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c2252b31e38fdb/tags/stories+about+my+parents/ Vintage Bootleg I jammed my drill tag:vox.com,2008-03-03:asset-6a00c2252b31e38fdb00f48ce0854e0002 2008-03-03T00:32:58Z 2008-03-03T08:12:38Z VeryScaryCarnival http://veryscarycarnival.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom How's your day? Mine, not so good. My day started out with me sitting on my living room floor - crying - with a power drill in my hands. About 12 years ago my father made me a table - glass top, wood frame and as long as my couch. I really liked t...

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]]> Blue Bubble Gum tag:vox.com,2008-01-13:asset-6a00c2252b31e38fdb00e398d1f96a0002 2008-01-13T21:39:38Z 2008-01-13T22:39:56Z VeryScaryCarnival http://veryscarycarnival.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom After a quick back and forth with AgathaFrye about women with stylish facial hair and my own posting about that subject, I decided to tell a story about myself. When I was a kid - my father always had a mustache. Not quite a magnum 'stache, but i...

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]]> 2007 - Where Did the Time Go? tag:vox.com,2008-01-05:asset-6a00c2252b31e38fdb00e398cf4de80003 2008-01-05T23:07:44Z 2008-01-06T17:39:51Z VeryScaryCarnival http://veryscarycarnival.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Pretty Baby Pretty Baby

I just turned 45. It doesn't seem like it has been a year since I was complaining about turning 44... 2007 - where did the time go and what exactly did I do with it? 2007 - HOW CAN I TELL YOU ARE MOURNING IF YOU ARE ALWAYS BUMMED OUT? 2007 starte...

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]]> Garden tag:vox.com,2007-12-21:asset-6a00c2252b31e38fdb00e398ca6b7c0001 2007-12-21T22:32:26Z 2008-01-05T21:59:33Z VeryScaryCarnival http://veryscarycarnival.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Garden

02/18/1920 - 12/21/2006

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]]> Clippings tag:vox.com,2007-11-29:asset-6a00c2252b31e38fdb00e398c29b410003 2007-11-29T22:33:25Z 2007-12-04T23:45:46Z VeryScaryCarnival http://veryscarycarnival.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Clippings

In a back issue post I called Welcome to My World I mention 3 newspaper clippings that were found in my father's wallet after his death. I decided to try and contact the people who made such an impact on my father that he would carry around their ...

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]]> Welcome to My World tag:vox.com,2007-10-22:asset-6a00c2252b31e38fdb00e398b54eb10002 2007-10-22T02:10:48Z 2007-10-22T19:12:02Z VeryScaryCarnival http://veryscarycarnival.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Dad on a Wing Welcome to My World Before and After Dad's Wallet

My mother was going through drawers, pulling out things I had seen a thousand times. She showed them to me like I had never seen them before. "Look, remember this?" It was a scarf my father brought back from his TDY in Taiwan. "Look what I found!"...

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]]> QotD: Gift From A Parent tag:vox.com,2007-09-03:asset-6a00c2252b31e38fdb00e398a495430005 2007-09-03T19:19:36Z 2007-10-22T17:51:37Z VeryScaryCarnival http://veryscarycarnival.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Ring

What gift from a parent do you remember the most? Submitted by jorge456. Funny you should ask that today. Last night I was going through my jewelry box. I don't own a lot of really nice jewelry. I've never really be all that interested in dia...

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]]> The Hutch tag:vox.com,2007-08-15:asset-6a00c2252b31e38fdb00e3989dc54f0001 2007-08-15T00:23:15Z 2007-10-22T18:24:57Z VeryScaryCarnival http://veryscarycarnival.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Hutch

When my dad retired and we moved to the country, it was his wish to raise chickens and rabbits. He built a hutch, chickens roosting on one side, rabbits doing their thing on the other. Things were fine for about 2 weeks. One morning my dad went o...

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]]> Christmas in July! tag:vox.com,2007-07-12:asset-6a00c2252b31e38fdb00cd973f870e4cd5 2007-07-12T16:52:36Z 2007-10-22T18:38:16Z VeryScaryCarnival http://veryscarycarnival.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Ceramic Bear

I opened a box yesterday labeled: VINTAGE HATS. No books or lasagna pan found, but I did find my fez...and my Russian winter hat, and an old mink scrap from a WW2 era coat that belonged to my mother. Yes, the styrofoam bowler hat was in that box t...

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]]> Grilling on the Front Porch - What's Dangerous About That? tag:vox.com,2007-06-17:asset-6a00c2252b31e38fdb00cd9736d9b14cd5 2007-06-17T17:18:07Z 2007-10-22T18:53:37Z VeryScaryCarnival http://veryscarycarnival.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Father's Day - 2006 We were visiting friends and family in Arkansas. We drove from our new home in Canada with our cat in the back. This time it took 5 days because we drove across Canada and border crossed near Winnipeg. Glad we got that out of...

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