- Landed in Florida and now doing a week in Berkeley helping out with my granddaughter
- My DIL is at a reunion
- Berkeley is the easiest place in the world to dress in
- Walked the baby in the stroller with what I had warm in my suitcase
- A beret and raincoat
- Cropped pants and Fair Isle socks
- Clunky shoes
- I asked the kid how I looked and she laughed
- However I felt the height of fashion
- Purple linen pants are the little black dress here
- Older women are unapologetic in Berkeley
- Unlike the lady my age on the plane who couldn't close her mouth
- The skin had been pulled too tight
- Women should be unapologetic everywhere
- Mother is a verb not a noun
- Love being able to help out
- We are down the street from the Berkeley Academy of Bull fighting
- Which if you have trouble finding it is across the street from the Socratic elementary school
- Half a block from the Herbal Apothecary and soap making classes place
- Which is next door
- Dropped by a fermentation bar yesterday
- We were running low on Kombucha
- Picked up some fermented lime pickle
- So excited about that
- Time to get fermenting in the RV
- One more week in Florida then off to Texas via New Orleans
- But first I have some fabric shopping to do here
- In Florida we get to see my dad's best friend
- A man who laughs so hard when we tell dad stories that he can hardly talk
- They used to live across the street from us
- The kids waved to each other in the morning
- Picture window to picture window
- Now that whole family comes down for March break
- Next year for sure
- The Texas situation is TBD on my son's work anyway
- Do you know that my dad's first name was Norval
- You can't make this up
- He wished we could
- His dad had a drugstore and he named my dad after the president of the company that was his best seller
- Yup. Modest sanitary napkins
- My grandfather called my dad Skip
- No wonder
- And no surprise that my father was known best for his sense of humour
- What was the choice I ask you?
- Off to settle someone for their nap
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- Barbara
- I am a mother, a grandmother, and a teacher. But whatever happens in my life, I keep sewing. I have worked as a political communicator and now as a teacher in my formal life. I have also written extensively on sewing. I have been a frequent contributor and contributing editor of Threads magazine and the Australian magazine Dressmaking with Stitches. My book Sew.. the garment-making book of knowledge was published in May 2018 and is available for pre-order from Amazon

Sunday, January 19, 2020
Flypaper thoughts Berkeley edition
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