Mom and Dad met at Reed College in Portland, Oregon when they were both still teenagers. They were married and my sister, Anamaria, was born before Mom turned 18. This was less shocking back in the 1950s but still not a very auspicious start to the Lloyd family life. Mom obediently dropped out of schoolContinue reading “How Oxford saved the Lloyds”
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Meme
She taught me how to play solitaire right from the start. Before I learned how to say the name of the card game she called ‘big casino’ I called it ‘Baked Cresino”. It was a game with adding and subtracting and certainly helped my math skills. The solitaire game she explained to me was alwaysContinue reading “Meme”
Awakening on the I-95
In the rush of suburban, capitalist, 30-something, parenthood its easy to forget. Maybe that’s partly why we clutter up our lives so much. But every once in a while, it hits you upside the head. Today it did. It’s hot today, but the air is clean, it’s a slow and summertime day. It’s Sunday butContinue reading “Awakening on the I-95”
The View from a Broad 