Episode 49: More True von Trapp*
The 1920s and '30s brought dramatic changes to the von Trapp family. Agathe’s mother, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, died of scarlet fever...
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Still Waters
a serialized memoir
by Kristin Lindstrom
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Apr 15, 20222 min read
Episode 48: Spoiler Alert
If you are a fan of the wildly popular movie, The Sound of Music, this is a spoiler alert. Years ago, I represented Agathe von Trapp, the...
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Apr 7, 20221 min read
A Digression
What's your favorite quote from a famous person? Here's mine: If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me....
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Apr 6, 20223 min read
Episode 47: The Sears and Roebuck Charm School
The Sears and Roebuck Company is founded in Chicago in 1888. It's first product sold is watches. The company becomes famous for its mail...
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Mar 31, 20221 min read
Episode 46: Desire and Disappointment
(Above) Shirley Pfoutz in about 1960. My mother enjoyed a brief flurry of attention from the publishing industry. During that time, some...
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Mar 23, 20222 min read
Episode 45: The Quick Draw
Since the pandemic began, my husband Perry and I have stayed close to home. Where we used to eat out several times a week, we only go out...
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Mar 21, 20223 min read
Episode 44: Sadie Rules
When it comes to our behavior, Sadie can be a harsh taskmistress. One day, I open a banana to find it rotten through and through. As I’m...
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Mar 18, 20223 min read
Episode 43: Sadie
Sadie is a black woman who at one time was a hell raiser. Over the years it begins to take its toll, and she finds religion. She...
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Mar 11, 20221 min read
A Digression: Laundry News
The family was gathered out at the Cabin John house. I was taking the opportunity to wash some clothes. I had my own place but it didn't...
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Mar 9, 20222 min read
Episode 42: Mysteries of The Writing Life
Throughout her ups and downs, despite four children, a divorce, depression, and a job, mysteriously my mother finds time to write. She...
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Mar 6, 20222 min read
Episode 41: Franklin, A Neighbor
The Daniels place is a tidy two-story house with cramped rooms settled onto a large packet of land. The Daniels moved to Cabin John from...
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Feb 28, 20222 min read
Episode 40: Junior Redux
There’s always something going on at Junior’s place. With five children, an absent mother, and the friends that come to drink and smoke,...
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Feb 24, 20222 min read
Episode 39: Not So Random Gaffes
I said earlier that I’ve put my foot in my mouth a thousand times in my day, usually when I should have known better. My first job at the...
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Feb 22, 20222 min read
Episode 38: A Mighty Fine Milkshake
In the years before John arrives, we take a trip to Princeton, New Jersey, to visit one of my mother’s few remaining friends. She and her...
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Feb 16, 20223 min read
Episode 37: The Pain of a Random Gaffe
I was driving the Green Bomber, my first car, passed on to me by my parents. Despite the fact the green Plymouth Satellite was wide and...
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Feb 14, 20221 min read
A Digression: Valentine's Day
Every Valentine’s Day, we wake up and come to the kitchen to find four identical red, heart-shaped boxes of chocolate on the round table....
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Feb 11, 20223 min read
Episode 36: Out and About One Fall Day
There’s a little house at the bottom of Woodrow Place where my friends Mary and Kate once lived just at the border of the large field...
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Feb 9, 20223 min read
Episode 35: Alone
Home has never felt so far away. I am hiding in an outhouse with the door locked, behind and slightly uphill from the mean, low-slung...
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Feb 6, 20221 min read
A Digression
One summer morning, my mother tells me we'd be visiting a friend for lunch. She'd made some new friends since the divorce, and some of...
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Feb 4, 20224 min read
Episode 34: Pony Up
One day, Jake reveals that he has a friend named Ally who lives at the end of 80th Street who has horses and boards a pony. The pony is...
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