Memoir | Still Waters

Nov 16, 20212 min read

Episode 17: Settling In

When John arrives, he decides that we should all eat together. We rarely have a meal with Dad besides holidays. He can’t stand eating...

Nov 12, 20211 min read

But I Digress. . .

Pic Temple with his horse Piccolo and dog Lady. His show ran from 1948 to 1961. There’s a popular children’s show in Washington, with...

Nov 11, 20213 min read

Episode Sixteen: Uncharted Territory

After four years, John comes back around. Amazingly, Shirley still loves him. He decides he’ll commute to Cabin John from Chambersburg on...

Nov 8, 20213 min read

Episode Fifteen: Off to India

With all the changes in our lives, with fathers going and coming, you would think nothing can surprise me. Then the day comes when Dad...

Nov 5, 20213 min read

Episode Fourteen: Dad Retreats

After a show of reluctance to leave, Mom moves Dad into his basement apartment, 20 minutes away from home on MacArthur Blvd. in the city....

Nov 1, 20213 min read

Episode Thirteen: D-I-V-O-R-C-E

Many people considering divorce choose in the end the stay together for the sake of the kids. As traumatic as my parents’ divorce was, I...

Oct 27, 20211 min read

But I Digress. . .

Some years ago, my husband Perry and I met his brother Whitney and his wife for lunch at a seafood place near Deal, Maryland. Perry's...

Oct 25, 20215 min read

Episode Twelve: Alienated

After years of economic strife, Hjalmar finally lands a job with the Federal government in Washington, D.C., and the family moves to...

Oct 21, 20211 min read

Episode Eleven: The Vanishing Act

When they buy their own house in Lombard, Hjalmar decides to change careers. He joins a brokerage house. The year is 1929. A bread line...

Oct 19, 20212 min read

Episode Ten: Young Shirley

My mother Shirley is born April 22, 1922, an only child with parents who are unable to give her much love. They live in Lombard,...

Oct 14, 20211 min read

But I Digress. . .

One disaster that could have been averted at our house is the tragic death of the television set. It sits on a high rolling stand in...

Oct 11, 20214 min read

Episode Nine: Pops and Senor Bum in the Jungle

In his retirement, Pops buys and fixes watches for resale. He frequents the pawn shops of Rosslyn, Virginia, at the foot of Key Bridge,...

Oct 7, 20213 min read

Pops: Very Still Waters

Early every Sunday morning, my maternal grandfather, Hjalmar Eclov, beetles down our down our dirt driveway in his elderly Volvo and...

Oct 4, 20215 min read

Shirley's Folly

Everyone is excited when my mother gets us a mid-sized black standard poodle, officially registered as ‘Shirley’s Folly’ because she...

Sep 30, 20213 min read

Get Happy

My first dog is a beautiful black and tan Pekingese. My mother got me one because she had a beloved Peke growing up and had a love affair...

Sep 27, 20214 min read

Episode Five: It's Earl Again

I am walking aimlessly down 78th Street one sizzling summer day when Earl and another man turn the corner from Earl’s house on Woodrow...

Sep 23, 20213 min read

Episode Four: Earl

On the surface, Earl Huntington is a jovial man. He is married to Dolly and has two sons, Reb and Jimmy. Earl is a small man. . .

Sep 20, 20216 min read

Episode Three: Home

We live in a big two-story stucco house with a wide, white front porch on a service road just below MacArthur Blvd. It was built by Mr....

Sep 3, 20214 min read

Episode One: Here and Then It's Gone

Thousands of people have passed through Cabin John, Maryland, without ever knowing it, on the way to somewhere else.

Sep 3, 20216 min read

Episode Two: Alone

The Potomac River is sliding smoothly past me, its seemingly placid surface hiding the turbulence below.

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Still Waters a serialized memoir by Kristin Lindstrom

Still Waters
a serialized memoir
by Kristin Lindstrom