1. Rocks caught in the lawnmower and rock candy
2. George and May
3. The first book I owned: Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights
4. Aunt Vivien and Bud and the Indian Reservation
5. Uncle Ozzie drowning
6. My mother singing
7. House fire at 48th Street
8. Following the fire truck up the hill and the fear I felt when it stopped in front of my house
9. Paper bag Halloween costumes with Jimmy in Hollywood Park Projects
10. Playing in the street with the neighborhood kids
11. Wetting my pants in front of all the kids
12. Lipstick tube hitting me in the face on Christmas morning
13. The IGA at the bottom of the hill
14. Trick or treating
15. Camano Island
16. Crabbing
17. Waterskiing
18. My mother waterskiing
19. Burning my hip on the wood stove
20. Miriam Loucks
21. My love for reading
22. My parents fear during the Cuban Missile Crisis
23. My father’s bar/recreation room
24. My mother and father dancing at their house parties
25. Phil and Phyllis Haskell
26. The string game my parents and their friends played
27. My mother discovering that I was reading Peyton Place
28. Mr. Geyer
29. My dad listening to jazz
30. My dad drinking rum and coke
31. Jimmy spitting in my milk
32. Mr. Mott
33. The day John Kennedy was assassinated
34. Playing in the woods
35. The two story tree house my brother and his friends built
36. Sleeping in the tree house
37. The woods across from my house
38. The creek in the woods
39. The Tarzan swing we used to cross the creek
40. Stump rot fights
41. Following the creek from our neighborhood to the airport
42. Angle Lake
43. Lily pads in Angle Lake and getting caught in them
44. Sneaking out of the house through the basement window
45. My grandpa Ben and the oxygen tank
46. Grandpa Ben unhooking the tank so he could smoke
47. Uncle Darryl and how handsome he was
48. Teresa as my best friend
49. Spending the night at Teresa’s house
50. Going to seminary with Teresa early in the morning
51. Santa Claus in the window of the Fredericks and Nelson in downtown Seattle
52. Driving home from my Grandparents house on Christmas Eve
53. My dad singing We Three Kings
54. The Christmas tree on Christmas morning
55. The magic of snow falling
56. Winning a pink Schwinn bike at an Albertson’s raffle
57. Being left in the woods
58. Riding my bike down 216th
59. Getting caught stealing Red Hots with Teresa
60. Riding my bike down 216th with my brother Mark on the handlebars when he put his foot in the spokes and flipped the bike.
61. Mark breaking his leg and me being scared half to death
62. Des Moines Field House
63. Breaking my toe playing softball in bare feet
64. Winning most Inspirational Player in Basketball
65. Changing elementary schools
66. The green shoes with the hole in them
67. Standing in front of the class at a new school being introduced as Constance while wearing clear plastic rain boots with no shoes
68. Burgundy hip-hugger dress
69. Kirie Peterson
70. Cutting through the pastures walking to school in the rain
71. Trying out for cheerleader…and losing
72. Waterland Festival – every year
73. The birth of Mark
74. The birth of Matthew
75. My mother getting sick
76. Donna Jacobs
77. Lance and Lynn St. Laurent
78. The neighbor who spoke Korean and molested my brother while I was babysitting
79. Linda Jensen
80. My mother calling my name from the deck of our house telling me to come home for dinner
81. Stamping prices on cans of food at Albertson.
82. Babysitting for Meredith’s twins the summer I was twelve
83. Buying my first pair of contacts with babysitting money and scratching my cornea and not being able to wear them
84. Charlotte wearing wet underpants on her head
85. Listening to Jimmy and the St. Laurent boys through the floor vent in my room while they talked about my how flat my chest was
86. The McMartin boys from next door
87. Des Moines Terrace
88. Teresa and I flirting with Ed Tonseth
89. Learning that Teresa was a lesbian
90. The cool stuff Teresa’s dad brought home from his job as a Purser for PanAm Airlines
91. The smell of fried pork chops
92. Avocado green shag carpet
93. Raking the carpet before my mother came home from work
94. The smells of the Indian bakery
95. Tuffley’s market
96. Spending my lunch money on candy at Tuffley’s – six different packages for a quarter
97. Walking to the corner store on Des Moines Way feeling like Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird
98. The weeping willow tree along the way
99. Des Moines theatre – Saturday movies for 10 cents
100. Eczema covering my hands and arms and the way kids teased me
101. Being a tomboy
And so it goes on September 28, 2012.
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