Comments on: Time trip

By: Sly

Sly — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:51:23 +0000

As conversations do rise and ebb I am back on a rise.

It’s the world that has evolved as it has that really endears me to stories such as yours and memories such as mine of simpler more understandable things and times.

From your awesome pictures and story it feels kind of like Fannie Flagg could have written it but no it’s true and it’s you. That’s such a great picture of you as a child working at your shrimp house. Did you have a feeling of it belonging to you then? Or were you just working there because it belonged to your family?

I know it’s a weird angled distinction but I’m curious about the Kelley thinking of that age. Did you create stories as you worked or were you too involved in the experience to be distracted by your own mind?

S’all for now, Sly

By: rhbee

rhbee — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:13:47 +0000

I have no pictures except those my blurry memory provides but when I was 8 or 9 my Mom and Dad decided to help out her sister and husband by opening up a roadside cafe somewhere on the highway leading into Sacramento. We lived in Vallejo at the time and my Dad was in the Navy and so each weekend we would pack up the car and drive, it seemed like 100′s of miles, to the cafe and camp out in a tent out back while my Dad and Mom worked in the cafe. Your right my memories of it as an experience are mostly fond except I still have echoes of the arguements about money we’d hear as we fell aspleep in the back seat on the way home.

Many years later my wife, Terri, and I work ourselves silly each summer running a concession business much like what I remember in terms of work, though the rewards are much much better.

I don’t know why but its only now that i wish I had some pictures to go with those memories. You are lucky.

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:39:41 +0000

What a beautiful memory, and a beautiful insight into how amazing things really happen. Thanks.

By: Sly

Sly — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:18:26 +0000

Well gee I didn’t mean that to sound like such a green eyed downer
I’m really doing great and being very positive about life and stuff. And I really did love the imagery and the pictures.

By: Sly

Sly — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:12:17 +0000

Wow that’s a great story and it’s a great thing to know that you had such a positive experience to give you these good memories from seeing the picture. Thanks for sharing your positivity and your beautiful story.

I think that’s why I seek out differences intentially so that I can have the experience of cultures that I wasn’t allowed to know about when I was growing up in my all white rather stodgy environment.

What I see immediately is that you can look at two white women who have very little in common but the color of the skin and even that is variant and not see anything real. Imagine then how people of other colors are seen even within their own color. Sorry to go ‘there’ but it seems I can’t help it anymore that’s mostly where I’m at.

By: Zack

Zack — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:25:46 +0000

Time trip, indeed. You look so much like my little sister. Now I know what she would have looked like if she’d grown up. I’m off for a bit.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:58:53 +0000

Wow. You keep coming up with whole other lives from your childhood.

I want to eat at the New Orleans Shrimp House! Besides the fact that I love shrimp, it sounds like a wonderful experience. Food cooked and served with loving hands always tastes better.

And love the photo of you and all the little period details in the background.

The outside of the restaurant reminds me of that place on True Blood.

By: Mark Tiedemann

Mark Tiedemann — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:38:34 +0000

My word, you were always cute (and I mean that in the best way)…but look at the seriousness with which you’re ladeling! Attention to detail and a proper appreciation for the work at hand—that’s what makes you a good writer.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:43:26 +0000

Thanks for sharing this personal story! What an amazing lesson – people make magic, not money… I wont forget that…

My partner had a pub and a catering company once upon a time. His children used to help out too doing all sort of things like washing up and waiting and pouring beer… I’m pretty sure they remembered that period fondly too.