Archive for August, 2009
Friday, August 14th, 2009
The Good Old Summertime
Seaside Heights, circa 1953 Helen and Barb I still feel that happy when I go to the beach! And I love Mom’s colorful skirt. It’s so 50′s. It has the same pattern those old formica tabletops used to have!
1 Comment » - Posted in Dittrich by Barb
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
My Teen Novel
My 32-year-old opus, written at the tender age of 13, poured with white-intensity from my feverish guts one lazy August in Toms River, NJ, is up on the web. I wanted to password protect it, but oh well. It’s an interesting snapshot of life in the late 1970s and the types of problems I thought [...]
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Like a Mare
My mom heard this poem spoken by a character on the Upstairs, Downstairs BBC drama that was shown on Masterpiece Theater. She was so amused by it she wrote it down. The name of the woman to be insulted goes at the beginning. . [Georgia's] in the kitchen Sitting on a chair Lifted up her [...]
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Airplane Ride
When I was eight I started to write a book of poems. The rhythm of them was inspired by Dr. Suess but the concepts were my own. In case the reader didn’t get that the airplane was flying at 500 feet I drew a schematic.
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Barbara at 11 Months
By the time they took away my baby bottle, Grandpop made sure I had a different one!
1 Comment » - Posted in Dittrich by Barb
Friday, August 7th, 2009
Where’s Katnip?
Silly kittie! I didn’t even know she was there until I tried to close the drawer!
2 Comments » - Posted in Amusing timewaster by Barb
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Girls Rock!
I love having innocent victims…er I mean, subjects! I told the girls to pose on the rocks. Then everyone moved to a different rock, and posed again… And again…. The (Happy) End!
1 Comment » - Posted in Amusing timewaster by Barb
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Harried Housewife
When I was 11 I got very into making satirical pictures in imitation of cartoons from Mad Magazine and Cracked, and women appearing in advertisements and commercials of the time. Feminism was very big in the mid-1970s so they were seen through that lens. This one was one of my finest, most baroque creations. It [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Art,Personal news by Tracy
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
A Fistful of Galaxies
Lately I’ve been fascinated with galaxies. There are hundreds of thousands of them in the universe, and each one contains billions of stars and perhaps millions of planets. Like people, they are all different. Here are a few creatively named ones I’ve found courtesy of the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day website. Fireworks Galaxy [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Amusing timewaster by Tracy
Saturday, August 1st, 2009
Goosebumps
Not only is this my great grandmother, and name sake Barbara Dittrich.. But that’s my handwriting on the back of the photo … but I didn’t write it!! And then a friend at work remarked that the expression on the little girl’s face really makes her look a lot like Violet! That’s when I got [...]
