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Tag Archives: Cari Lynn Vaughn
Halloween Costumes
Halloween Costumes When I was four my mother took a picture of me next to a scarecrow she’d made and placed on the porch. This was at our apartment on Broadway, so it must have been around 1979. I … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Event, Flashback
Tagged 1977, 1979, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, An Acceptable Time, bell-bottom jeans, Broadway, Bugs Bunny Halloween Special, camera, Candy Cigarettes, Cape, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Ghost of an Indian Princess, Halloween, Hippie, Jack in the Box, Jane in the Box, Joke Book, Madeline L'Engle, Marvin The Martian, McCall's, Mom, My Mother The Rich, Native American, Nikki, Ohio, Parade, peace sign earrings, Pictures, Raggedy Anne, Rose Blue, Scarcrow, Sewing, Shelby, Simplicity, Third Street, tiara, tie-dyed, Trick or Treat, white gloves, Witch
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Dark And Stormy Night
A Dark And Stormy Night Memory is not reliable. It gets tangled among emotions and thoughts. Who is to say what really happened and what we felt happened. Who is to say that both are not real in some way … Continue reading
Posted in Event, History, Movies/TV, Psychology, Writing
Tagged 1970s, 1994, 1995, 2018, 955 Marion Avenue, AA, Abigail Dudley, Alcohol, Alone, Ant-Climatic, Anxiety, Attic, Back Story, Betty Will, Black Mansion, cabinet, canopy bed, Cari Lynn Vaughn, closet, Commune, community, cook, Crain, Crane, Creative Writing, Damon's House, Dark, Dark and Stormy Night, Death, Death of a child, Depression, Dreamia, Drinking, Drunk, Dudley, Elizabeth Black, emptienss, Estate, Family, Frank Blymer Black, Friends, Ghost Story, Ghosts, Gin, Gothic Fiction, Grandma, Grandmother, Green, Grief, happy, Haunted Mansion, Heaven, Hell, Home Health Aid, horror, House, Hugh, Inner Demons, Insanity, Ireland, isolation, Jack and Jill Bathroom, Joel Black, John Baxtor Black, liquor, Lonely, Maid, Mansfield, mansion, Nell, Netflix, Nursing Classes, Ohio, Olivia, Piano, Pictures, Pink, Roger Black, servants, Shirley Jackson, space, staircase, The Haunting of Hill House, The Ohio Brass Company, The Ohio State University, Third Floor, Toys in the Attic, Tragedy, TV show, Vodka, well kept, Writing of Fiction
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Game of Thrones Season 6: Unburnt
May 9, 2016 Mother Mother of Children, Mother of Two, Mother of Kittens, Mother of Dragons. This week culminated into Mother’s Day and a celebration of mothers everywhere. That night we watched Once Upon A Time. Killian chose to … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Uncategorized
Tagged AI, Arya, Assassin, Bran, Brianne of Tarth, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Children of the Forest, Daenarys, Davos, Death, Direwolf, Dothraki, Dragons, Faceless God, Game of Thrones, Ghost, Greenseer, Hordor, Ice and Fire, Iron Throne, Jack Bender, Jon Snow, Khal Drogo, Lannister, Lost, Lysanna, Mad King, Murder, Ned, Night Watch, Prisoner, Ramsey Bolton, Rhegar, Rickon, Sansa, Season 6, Shireen, Stannis, Stark, Summer, Targaryian, The Door, The North, The Oathbreaker, Three Eyed Raven, Time Travel, Tower of Joy, Tyrion, Unburnt, white walkers, Winterfell
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Sister Carrie Diaries
The Carrie Diaries Watching The Carrie Diaries on Netflix, something occurred to me. Carrie’s journey from Connecticut to New York City parallels the journey by Caroline “Carrie” Meeber in the 1900 novel by Theodore Dreiser. In Dreiser’s novel, eighteen year … Continue reading
Posted in Flashback, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 15 years old, 18 Years Old, 1857, 1859, 1900, 1984, 2011, Become Rich and Famous, British Government, Candace Bushnell, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Carrie Bradshaw, Castleberry, Charles Dickens, Chicago, Coming of Age, Connecticut, Dorrit Bradshaw, Literature, Little Dorrit, Manhattan, Move To the CIty, New York City, Sex in the City, Short comings, Sister Carrie, Sister Carrie Diaries, The 80s, The Carrie Diaries, The Sex Pistols, Theodore Dreiser, Unhappy, Wisconsin
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Weightless
April 25, 2003 Weightless As a child I would stand at the edge of the pool—usually at the YMCA’s indoor pool. Then I would let myself tumble forward into the water. The warm water would surrounded me and for a … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Event, Flashback
Tagged 1993, 2003, Anastasia Vaughn, Ben, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Diploma, Drop Out, Go Back To School, Graduate, Hedges, Jail, Judge, Juvenile Detention Hall, Madison Comprehensive High School, Mansfield, Mediator, Mr. Jones, Ohio, Pool, Pregnancy, Pregnant Belly, Prison, Probation, Rainy Day, School, Shelby High School, Summer School, Weightless
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Journal, Diary and Memoir
May 7, 2015 Journal Is what I write considered a diary, a journal or a memoir? I pondered this question as I finished edits on Mono No Aware and continued typing up entries for Wings of Desire. I posed this … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged Adventure, Anais Nin, Body, Book, Bored, Boy, Cari Lynn Vaughn, chronological, Class, Common Place Book, Consensus, crush, daily, Dialogue, Diary, Essay, Events, Evolve, Facebook, Feelings, Girl, Growth, hydrid form, Ink, intellectual stimulation, intimate, Issues, Journal, Journey, locked book, Man, Memoir, Mind, Mono No Aware, natural progression, Page, School, Soul, Studies, Subtext Diary Series, Sylvia Plath, The Long Hot Summer, The Long Road, The World Is A Stage, theme, Unemployed, Virginia Woolf, weekly, Wings of Desire, Woman
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