family – Bill Abbott, poet, web page

Music and My Parents

I loved music. Still do. In my c-PTSD childhood, music and books were the escape. I first found rock and roll through the Chipmunks albums and the occasional tune on a children’s record (“Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter,” for instance). As I mentioned several months back, I found a radio on one ofContinue reading “Music and My Parents”

My Sabbatical Trip

First of all, since I only had 5 days to pull it off, I adjusted my trip schedule to drop the first two places I lived, which were Nolensville and Lafayette, as I was too young to have significant memories of those houses, and definitely not the churches. Maybe. I have vague memories of aContinue reading “My Sabbatical Trip”