[audio:http://www.julieduffy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/legwarmers.mp3|titles=Legwarmers] Yesterday I bent down and slid legwarmers over my feet for the first time since 1985. Instantly, I was 13 again; in my bedroom in my parents’ house, faintly worried. Will I look stupid? Is my hair right? Will he notice me? Where’s my electric-blue eyeliner? But these were a modest brown, not the… Continue reading Back In The 1980s, Kids…
Day: January 6, 2010
Kindergarten Aspirations 2010-2020
[audio:http://www.julieduffy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/kindergarten2010.mp3|titles=Kindergarten Aspirations 2010-2020] Visited the school yesterday and, while hanging around, found myself reading the exhibits on the wall outside the Kindergarten classroom. Embracing the idea of history and change occasioned by the dawning of a new decade (which it’s not. But don’t get me started on the whole “there was no Year 0” thing.… Continue reading Kindergarten Aspirations 2010-2020