My Childhood Memoir

Now that it's done and in the hands of the editor and publisher, other memories are popping up.

About hair. When i was little, sometimes Mother wrapped my hair in socks to make my hair look like Shirley Tempe's hair. I don't think it ever did.

From some of the pictures taken of me back when I was a kid, I don't think I ever went to a beauty parlor for a haircut. 

By the time I was in junior high, I put my hair in pin curls every night. Hair wrapped around a finger and fastened to the scalp with a bobby pin. Didn't make for comfortable sleeping. And sometimes my hair looked good and sometimes not. Did this all through high school too. I think most of the girls did the same, unless they got a permanent.

One I cut my own bangs way too short, Instead of lying down, the bangs stuck straight up. Mom figured out a kind of comb-over with my side hair which hid the crazy bangs until they grew out a bit.

Should have mentioned my dad didn't curse like some others, but he had his own vocabulary of "bad" words, such as "consarnit", "dagnabit" and a bunch of others.

I'm sure other memories will pop  up.

Marilyn


 

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  1. Lorna Collins - AuthorJanuary 20, 2024 at 8:28 AM

    My mom never used rags, but I sure remember bobby pins. And they hurt my scalp. I had perms when I got a little older. i didn't look like Shirley Temple, either!

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  2. authorMay 20, 2024 at 7:03 PM

    I had very curly hair and for some reason my mother decided to have me go to the beauty parlor when I was 12 or 13 and get a perm. I looked like a poodle and cried until it was undone. Childhood memories, all of us good and bad, fun and funny. Marcia

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