tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post4546070375416332885..comments2023-10-25T05:30:54.507-04:00Comments on Oh Get A Grip!: DiscoveryAshe Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390519279886657608noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-9195597251850452772011-02-15T14:56:12.605-05:002011-02-15T14:56:12.605-05:00A really great post....We sometimes look at parent...A really great post....We sometimes look at parents in a light that differs and this shows no matter who you are you are human.Savannah Chasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03969287794654622274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-78648398253089951882011-02-15T12:22:11.574-05:002011-02-15T12:22:11.574-05:00Thanks for sharing Jean,
This was a beautiful sto...Thanks for sharing Jean,<br /><br />This was a beautiful story of how a child realized that her parents were human. <br />I think we all never picture are parents as in this role. Yes they were lovers and who held the own sex appeal to each other.<br /><br />Even now the thought of my parents making love, freaks me. And I'm 47, lol. But regardless, tghere human. This was a beautiful timeless story.<br /><br />Teresa<br />tcwgrlup41@yahoo dot comTeresa K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02924374150166433414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-70256125896745046372011-02-13T17:46:52.952-05:002011-02-13T17:46:52.952-05:00Thanks for all your comments, thoughtful readers! ...Thanks for all your comments, thoughtful readers! And I wasn't sure whether anyone would actually read this post. (When we blog, we never know.) I was honored to contribute to this column, which is so much more than "I write erotica & here's a link to my latest novel/story."<br />- Jean RobertaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-28990661683342607442011-02-12T12:40:38.557-05:002011-02-12T12:40:38.557-05:00Thanks for sharing. WWII made people do so many t...Thanks for sharing. WWII made people do so many things that would not have been acceptable in other times. It brought a freedom that was suppressed for a while in the 50's but opened up again in the 60's and continues today. I'm glad of that freedom to choose.Shehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11376023103870884939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-72538352255437743682011-02-12T12:15:04.951-05:002011-02-12T12:15:04.951-05:00There are so many good things in this. I think my...There are so many good things in this. I think my favorite part is the image of your little sister running up to your mother's little tea party of well dressed friends and waving nude photos of her in front of everybody. Its just wonderful. You could put that in a movie. Or a story.<br /><br />As someone a little on the inside track of this piece, it seems to me your second draft is very much developed over your first draft, as if you were discovering your real subject as you overhauled it. This is how I experience writing too. Conceived in doubt, fueled by discovery, and the reader feels this in your piece when we're reading it. It isn;t so much about explaining things as a tongue poking around the gap where a tooth has been pulled, exploring and observing what cannot be solved. And in your parents photos, I think that's an interesting observation, that in the reveling of sex, they're like summer mayflies enjoying pleasure because of the stark awareness of their short mortality.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-46171697364830110032011-02-12T11:32:57.893-05:002011-02-12T11:32:57.893-05:00Jean -
Over the years, your feelings about those...Jean - <br /><br />Over the years, your feelings about those pictures must have changed with your evolving relationship to your parents. I think the hardest thing to accept, when we're young, isn't our parents having sex, but the idea that they might have had a life before we came along. As we get older, we're more curious about that part of their life.Kathleen Bradeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06347913255760493335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-7830048317337316632011-02-12T07:40:24.757-05:002011-02-12T07:40:24.757-05:00What a quietly moving post, Jean! Thank you!What a quietly moving post, Jean! Thank you!Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-45098559772114623342011-02-12T04:31:24.126-05:002011-02-12T04:31:24.126-05:00Hi Jean,
thank you for this.
I don't think I...Hi Jean,<br /><br />thank you for this.<br /><br />I don't think I discovered my parents were people until after I went to university.<br /><br />Now that they're not here, I think I finally see something of who they might have been.<br /><br />I love the joyful innocence described in this postMike Kimerahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18002309169478171450noreply@blogger.com