Please welcome my birthday guest - Caraway Carter!
A funny thing about my
family: my Fathers (That's my childhood name for my mother's dad.), my Mom and
I are all twenty years apart in age. And our birthdays are December, January,
& February respectively.
The year, I turned
twenty, my mother would have already turned forty and Fathers would have had
his sixtieth, so we celebrated all of them on the weekend of my mom's birthday.
We each got to invite our own friends.
His mobile home park
had a large community center, where over a hundred people wandered in and out
through the day. We play music from each of our eras. My college friends made
jokes with my Fathers’ friends and my mom's friends danced with everyone. It
was a wild, long day of our favorite foods & music, laughter and friends
and gifts that were opened throughout the day.
Sadly, my Fathers is no
longer with us. He past several years ago, though I might see a fifty-five,
seventy-five, ninety-five party in the future. We'll remember the man who made
our lives a wonderful. We'll celebrate our past youth and our future ahead and
laugh and love and eat with new friends and old family.
Thank you Nicole for
giving me space to remember my Fathers and my Mom.
Origin of Fathers: When
I was a little kid, my mother's mom insisted I call them grandmother and
grandfather. Well, that's an awfully tall order for a kid. I ended up calling
them Gran and Fathers.
She'd spend time when
we visited teaching me and training me to call her grandmother. She'd say, I'm
your grandmother, she's your grandma. And I'd eventually learn to say it
correctly, but Fathers stuck. And the best thing of all, is that he'd sign
anything to me as Fathers. There was never a question, they were my Grandmother
and Fathers.
I really miss him,
Fathers was this tall man with German ancestry. He was born on Christmas day,
and his name was almost Jesus... but he ended up being named Irving, nicknamed
Fritz. But, he'll always be Fathers.
The Scarlet Lock
Blurb:
Brandon
Marshall, in Paris for his twin sister’s wedding, has a fling before the big
day. At the end of a whirlwind week of discovering each other, Brandon and his
lover place a scarlet lock on the Love Lock Bridge.
Follow Brandon through six years of letters – to the citizens of Paris, on everything from how to make love, to eating passionate fruit – and to the lover, who is now his brother-in-law.
The locks are being removed, the bridge refitted… What will be the fate of The Scarlet Lock?
* * *
Follow Brandon through six years of letters – to the citizens of Paris, on everything from how to make love, to eating passionate fruit – and to the lover, who is now his brother-in-law.
The locks are being removed, the bridge refitted… What will be the fate of The Scarlet Lock?
* * *
A story from Love Unlocked – a collection of seven short stories and novellas –
unique LGBTQ romances inspired by the Love Lock Bridge.
Caraway Carter:
Hi, my name is Caraway Carter, and I am creating characters and
worlds that I hope you love as much as I do. Welcome!
You can reach me at caraway@carawaycarter.com and http://www.carawaycarter.com/
You can reach me at caraway@carawaycarter.com and http://www.carawaycarter.com/
I enjoyed your post it's funny my sister is 20 years younger than my mum so whenever I'm asked mum's age like this week when she had to go to the hospital I always remember that my sister is two years older than me then just add 20 years.
ReplyDeleteShirleyAnn(at)speakman40(dot)freeserve(dot)co(dot)uk
Thank you for sharing your family story with us, as it reminds me of the special name we also had for my grandfather based on my interpretation of granddad when I was a toddler <3 happy memories
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