We have a large and comfortable guest room bed, made up and waiting for - well, guests. But clearly someone has got here first. Why do I have the impression that a cat has been walking round and round, prior to settling down for a snooze?
There was a brief moment when Maddy was about 2 years old when I was so happy that I had broken her of sneaking up on the bed with me. Then one day, spying the dirty bed cover in the guest room, I realized that Mads had discovered the guest room and has assumed the role of my roommate complete with her own room and bed! A new (higher) bed frame and a series of large object placed on top of the new bed (clothes drying rack, electrical fan, books, etc. ) preventing canine access broke her of the habit. Now she imagines that it is her room - but there are bunk beds - she has lower bunk and guests have the upper level (and actual bed).
This blog began as Facebook notes - a challenge to myself to take, post, and write about a photograph a day. In turn, this grew out of a research project on "Writing and Photography" - that morphed into "Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination." I found that I preferred taking photographs and writing about them in this short and experimental form to researching the topic. The writing functions in part as an experiment in autobiography, drawing on the relationship between photography, memory, and association. But it's also linked to pedagogy: in the spring of 2009, I taught an undergraduate course on "Writing and Photography" that determined, from time to time, the direction taken by the entries. Over time - FTBL is now on its ninth year - it's turned into an art project: when I've (I hope!) photographed and written daily for ten years, I'm going to write about and analyze the whole experience.
There was a brief moment when Maddy was about 2 years old when I was so happy that I had broken her of sneaking up on the bed with me. Then one day, spying the dirty bed cover in the guest room, I realized that Mads had discovered the guest room and has assumed the role of my roommate complete with her own room and bed! A new (higher) bed frame and a series of large object placed on top of the new bed (clothes drying rack, electrical fan, books, etc. ) preventing canine access broke her of the habit. Now she imagines that it is her room - but there are bunk beds - she has lower bunk and guests have the upper level (and actual bed).
ReplyDeleteAh, Maddy ... this further confirms my long-held suspicion that she should be asked to pay her full share of the household bills ...
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