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...Just a Minute...
by Jacqueline
Sewall Golden
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Monterey Peninsula
Weather: clear and cool
On Sunday morning, January
23, 2000 my bags will be packed and I’ll be on the road to Southern
California to visit the cities of Hollywood, Glendale and Laguna
Beach. My plan is to take pictures of the homes in which I
was born and raised. These will then be mounted in my personal
album next to the small, grainy black and white ones taken some
60 years ago of me being held in the arms of my mother or grandmother
by the house on Grandview in Glendale; of taking first steps in
front of that house on Sonora Ave.; of rushing up the 52 steps to
the front door of our house on Manola Way in Hollywood and the wrenching
teen years in Laguna Beach. That particular Sunday will be
my 63rd birthday and this will be the fulfillment of a promise I
made to myself many years ago.
My Mom’s history was mostly a blank. She had wanted it
that way and was not forthcoming with many, if any, details of
her young life. I’m not going to do that to my kids.
They’ll be fully informed of the various stages of my existence.
My first 20 years will be so documented. Anything I’ve
done as an adult is already well represented, with the exception
of the ‘70’s when I didn’t own a camera. Missed out on some
great shots of the kids in their teens, which will be one of my
many deathbed regrets, I imagine.
The Hot Cocoa issue still boils. Would love to hear from
those who have a perfect recipe. So far, the favorite is
the world-famous Ibarra Mexican Hot Chocolate, a rich, tasty blend
of cocoa, cinnamon and other sweetly fragrant ingredients.
Jacqueline
Sewall Haines Blair Golden has, with one six-month exception,
when owning a ranch in in Oregon, lived her life in California.
A mother of two and grandmother of one, she is a freelance writer,
while not at work at her day job at an estate planning firm. Her
works have been published locally to great e-mail acclaim from
obviously intelligent folks.
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