Stories To Tell The Grandkids

Everyone is a Grandchild. These are our stories, and you are our audience.

RE: “March On”

I don’t like how it’s going. I’m deleting all of the posts and replacing it with a different version I just wrote. I’ll separate it into sections, but the content is going to change.

I was writing it for you all, not for my grandchildren, and certainly not for D***.

This time, it’ll be different.

Thank you,

Carrie

In Limbo

Part 1

» Part 2 - Parting Ways

We went straight into band camp. In the blazing sun. Getting yelled at by rank leaders and trying to relearn what I had forgotten. Honestly, it was the most awful day. I spent the entire time trying not to cry. I came incredibly close many times.

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In Limbo

Part 1

It should have been a great night with the people I love before starting off on my own.  Instead, my parents were in bed early and Chris and I spent the night deciding what we would do if I was pregnant.

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Nathan Philip used his small amount of musical talent to put an old journal entry to music.

Dreams as tall as skylines

Part 1

» Part 2

 I loved my band mates, though. Still do. They were brothers to me. We went through some drama that summer over girls and dumb shit, we got over it, you know how that goes. But all in all I just became close with them.

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