I remember being sorry to see Hughie leave, but I know I was anxious to launch the Bobby, and thus have an alternative source of transportation. Deb and I smoothed out the rough surface left by the dried putty with sandpaper. Next we pasted masking tape onto the line we’d drawn to coincide with the waterline. I figured a carefully defined waterline would give our bottom painting a more professional appearance when done. I stirred the paint, and we both had our own brush and a small plastic container for the paint. Rather than taking an end and both painting toward the middle, we reasoned that it made more sense to each take a separate side, and paint the whole thing that way.
I remember saying something like, “Deb have you noticed that this wood is so dry that it’s like painting a sponge?” I lavished the paint onto the surface, and it soaked down into the grain before I could reload my brush. While I had hoped it would be a simple task getting Bobby back into operation, I realized then that it was a bigger job than I expected. We would need to get another quart of paint, and apply a second coat to seal the majority of the leaks. At least I had a sense that we were making progress.
Mom and Betsy were still at the Chalet, but there was talk of them moving to the island soon. Deb had spent a couple of nights with Mom, and now that Hughie had gone, it was my turn. Since Mom had some health problems, she was taking prescription drugs to control her conditions. Mom waited until five o’clock each evening to have her cocktails, but when there was a long delay before dinner, it made for a difficult evening. This was before doctors understood the compounded effects of mixing alcohol and medications, which in Mom’s case reduced her ability t...
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... venue to Comfort Island sooner rather than later.
Two days later Betsy and Mom did move to Comfort. I looked up the date in Dad’s diary and found it was July twelfth. Before I had access to these diaries, I would have guessed that Mom and Betsy spent the entire two months that summer at the Chalet. When I reported my finding to Betsy, she was amazed to hear that their total stay off the island was only three weeks. She revealed that she and Mom played so much gin rummy and Honeymoon Bridge in those three weeks that she permanently lost her taste for card games.
Dad, Deb, Betsy, and I had made preparations for the move. I had worked on the lawn and beach. Deb and Betsy bought paint and curtains. Dad had supervised while Gerald Slate fixed assorted plumbing problems, plugged holes in the ceilings and performed general cleanup. Mom reluctantly agreed to a trial run.
Florence is in her headquarters at the hospital, she works at. She is writing a letter to a patient's mother. When all of a sudden, Mary, a fellow nurse, walks in. Mary and Florence talk about how nice it is to work with each other and how happy Mary is here. Mary quotes, “ I’m glad I’m here with you Miss Nightengale. Good Night.” at the end of their discussion.Also, they talk about how both of their families don’t really want them there. They talk for a little and Florence seems very at home and happy. Later, after Mary had left, two gentlemen come to talk to Florence. It is Dr. Goodale and Dr. Hall that have come to speak with her. After talking for a while they both leave and let Florence to her work. In the hospital, Florence seemed like an entire new person, she was much more
Keeping an organized and tidy palette is also important in maintaining clean brushes. Mixing is done with both palette knife and brush, but the blends are kept separate to retain the integrity of the colors. There is no muddiness in Bob’s world.
...ilies’. Michael Wamsley and Janelle Hornsby were almost killed themselves because they driven on the highway after addicting meth; moreover, they were still high many hours, the police came and rescued them. Janelle’s mother thought the behavior that her daughter did is such a waste of time. If Wamsley and Janelle haven't addict to meth in the party, they will never face the accident; still, their family will never lose hope on their child.
Narrator 2: They lived in a old cottage in front of an old overgrown woods. There was a mother that lived with her two children.
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Another way these characters avoid living their life is by drinking continuously, in a way to make the time pass by faster and forget. ?Haven?t you had enough? She loses count after 10 cocktails,? (pg.11) proving to the audience her own self denial, and how she wastes every day. Unfortunately, there are many, who in society today, do the same thing to get out of a situation they?re trying to hide or a difficult time they?re going through. This relates back to their affair which they?re obviously hiding and trying to get through this time in their life.
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Her parents meet at a social gathering in town and where married shortly thereafter. Marie’s name was chosen by her grandmother and mother, “because they loved to read the list was quite long with much debate over each name.” If she was a boy her name would have been Francis, so she is very happy to have born a girl. Marie’s great uncle was a physician and delivered her in the local hospital. Her mother, was a housewife, as was the norm in those days and her father ran his own business. Her mother was very close with her parents, two brothers, and two sisters. When her grandmother was diagnosed with asthma the family had to move. In those days a warm and dry climate was recommended, Arizona was the chosen state. Because her grandma could never quite leave home, KY, the family made many trips between the states. These trips back and forth dominated Marie’s childhood with her uncles and aunts being her childhood playmates.
Marie, who is a product of an abusive family, is influenced by her past, as she perceives the relationship between Callie and her son, Bo. Saunders writes, describing Marie’s childhood experiences, “At least she’d [Marie] never locked on of them [her children] in a closet while entertaining a literal gravedigger in the parlor” (174). Marie’s mother did not embody the traditional traits of a maternal fig...
The narrator spends her young childhood drunk with love for her mother. She happily sleeps late on school holidays, follows her mother ar...
When she and her Ma got home, it was almost dark outside. Frances saw something suspicious, her brother(Mike), shouldn’t be out at this time. Once they got inside, Frances and her mother tucked in all the children and went to bed themselves. Frances was still wondering about Mike, “What was he doing?” She fell asleep falling wiry of her younger brother. When she up, they had breakfast, and headed to their jobs. Frances was still wondering what Mike had done. “Was he stealing? No, their Da(father) had taught them better than that before he fell ill and died. She had never seen her mother cry until then.
“When I was 13, my dad started drinking more and more. Every day he would come home from work and have beer, lots of it. I didn’t think much of it at first, but then he started getting more angry and violent. He would shout at my mom and me. It was like my father had gone and been replaced with another guy” says an anonymous kid who lives with an alcoholic parent in “How my dad’s drinking problem almost destroyed my family”. The kid depicts that he is so confused, angry and upset especially when his father got fired for going to work drunk. This is one of many children’s voices who suffers having an alcoholic in their family. Most of them are depressed because alcohol has destroyed their family. This is an addiction that does
...er alcoholic mother. Jess takes on the role of scapegoat when Alice deflects her “sick” behavior and yells at Jess to do her homework repeatedly while Alice stumbles around the house drunk.