Department
History
Document Type
Autobiographical Writing
Publication Date
4-29-2023
Abstract
The winter after her tenth birthday brought the crisis with it. That crisis compounded a wretched combination of willfulness and unrecognized reality with timing. The compound meant that she might not live to be eleven— however impossible that seemed at the time.
She was a child who loved the outdoors and its beauty, but also loved order, neatness, and cleanliness. Those two loves warred within her, with the best manifestation being a penchant for interrupting her early preoccupation with making mud-pies for frequent trips indoors to wash up before returning to “cooking.” The long walkway from her first childhood home to the street seemed made for tricycling or attaching skates to her shoes to spend hours going end-toend— as long as light lasted.
Recommended Citation
Granade, S. Ray, "Deranda and the Pediatrician" (2023). Creative Works. 78.
https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/creative_work/78