childhood – Orangette https://orangette.net Fri, 22 Jul 2016 23:40:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 July 10 https://orangette.net/2015/07/july-10/ https://orangette.net/2015/07/july-10/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:23:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/11/july-10 My mother tells me that she had always loved the house. She used to drive by and admire it. When I was thirteen, it came on the market, and she and my dad snatched it up. The house was built in 1948, old for Oklahoma, painted brick with wrought iron and ivy. It needed a lot of work, and they tore out walls and opened it up, changed everything. It was their biggest, finest collaboration, and they made it exactly what they wanted. It was weird in ways, or maybe quirky is the better word, with a mirror on the ceiling of the downstairs bathroom and Pepto-Bismol pink wallpaper in the dining room. But mostly it was beautiful, obscenely beautiful, full of…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2015/07/july-10/feed/ 75 Big, bad, banana https://orangette.net/2006/10/big-bad-banana/ https://orangette.net/2006/10/big-bad-banana/#comments Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:52:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/big-bad-banana I was not an easy child. I was afraid of thunderstorms, and of the vacuum cleaner. My head was so big that I would wind up in tears when my mother tried to wedge it through a turtleneck. I was terrified of needles, so much so that nurses had to sit on me to give me my booster shots. Even sweet, wrinkly E.T. scared the crap out of me, with his weird misshapen head and creepy glowing finger. And on top of all that, I hated bananas. Kids are supposed to love bananas — when all else fails, that, at least, is supposed to be easy. My poor, patient mother did her best. To ease her mind, she once consulted…

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