February 17, 2005

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Claire

My own parents' stories are amazingly boring.

My mom's is as boring as toast. My dad's...is mysterious. I only know snippets, and more situations than complete pictures. Inattentive (possibly alcoholic?) mom, mostly raised by his aunt, military boarding school as a child, failed out of college, joined the peace corps, worked in Colombia in the peace corps, eventually earned his masters, and is now the most upstanding, prude person you'll meet (save for my mom, of course). It's clear to me that there are HUGE chunks of that story that are far more interesting that I'll eventually fill in somehow.