not-so-sticky

A napping Lily. , originally uploaded by sleepjunky . I'm hopelessly addicted to CBS soap operas - in particular, to As the World Turns . I hate to admit this publicly, and I think it goes against my nature, but it's true. There. I said it. I love soap operas. Now, it isn't soap operas as a genre that I am in love with, and I wouldn't start watching a new soap opera. It's for a couple of reasons that I tune in daily to As the World Turns . As a small child, after lunch, my mother and I would retire to the living room, where we would curl up together on the couch, and she would watch soap operas while I napped. It's one of my fondest memories of relationship with my mother, which unfortunately, has become a bit distant over the passage of time. Mostly, I would nap. (I have always been a lover of naps.) But other times, I would lay quietly with my mother and follow the storyline, as much as my little mind could grasp. I even remember when Iva from As the World...

Dana child-rangling Liam and Lily , originally uploaded by sleepjunky . I am attempting to write this with my father sitting across the table staring at me. I used to find this unsettling, and sometimes, I still find it irritating, despite myself, but today has been a relatively good stuck-in-the-house kind of day, and I'm enjoying having him here with me. Because of this new project, I spent a lot of the day bugging my family, taking their photographs. They are kind of used to this behavior; only my son showed some resistance - he's a bit of a hermit, and I think he finds this invasive. It's so hard for me to correlate my own childhood with his, because he is living in such a strange digital age of which I have no equivalent. (My father has just informed me that he is going to sit in the other room. My father doesn't do anything without telling me first. Anything.) Anyway, at the end of the day, I have seventy photographs. Seventy photographs of moments I t...