A fellow traveler from the ancient past resurfaced the other day. She happened to stumble across my blog, and read a story in which she recognized herself. So she emailed me and asked who I was. We’ve been corresponding and catching up ever since.
Today she sent me a collage of photographs she took of me and my son’s father (before we even had a son) at a party on Holland Avenue about thirty years ago. You can click on the image (twice, even) to make it bigger.
I actually remember a couple of things about that party.
1) There was a wicked punch which got wickeder as the night went on and people kept pouring bottles of booze into it.
2) Someone wandered in off the street and was sniffing glue, which was widely regarded as the lowest rung of the drug-using hierarchy back then, which made us all feel relatively virtuous about our own vices.
3)John and I crashed there overnight, and when we woke up the next morning, someone was peeing in John’s shoe.
I don’t miss those days, but I have to say I looked pretty good in these pictures, all things considered.
Your son looks just like his dad in the pictures on the left… and yes, you looked GOOD in those pictures but you look DAMNED GOOD now!
Great pictures.
Speaking of blasts from the past…I found Barbara D’s sister and asked her to pass your email on to her.
GC, you ol’ sweet-talkin’ smoothie you.
Oh thanks Deb. Was that recently?
a couple of days ago.
How cool you reconnected with a friend from the past through your blog. You look beautiful in the photos.
ou know we can be self critical and all that, but we age really well in this family! You were a really cutie (I still love that picture I made into an icon for you and you were exjausted in that picture!)but now you’re BEAUTIFUL!
Ah, the good ol’ days! I have a photo of my SO and I on my mantle. It was taken less than ten years ago. The other day when I glanced at it, I thought, Wow, we looked so young! (We are 60 and 58 now.)
Deb, well maybe I’ll hear from her soon, too!
Thanks Laura!
Aww, thanks Mudmama – I still love that icon picture too. I think it was my first day as a mom. I guess we do age well – do you still get carded at bars? (I don’t. In fact, a nice young man offered me his seat on the bus the other day. That was a first.)
Abby, yes, it’s all relative, isn’t it? No matter how old I got, my grandfather always thought I was young. We should all be looking in the mirror and thinking how good today’s photos will look in ten years!
oh my gosh – how cute are you?