Another Midnight Jaunt to the Bathroom
I remember getting up in the evening to go to the bathroom and as I was halfway there, daddy was leaving the bathroom drying his hair with a towel-stark naked. I remember seeing something hanging down from his crotch. That's the last time I ever wanted to look at anything for details! One day we went for a family walk. The University of Louisville was just a few blocks away so it was a favorite and safe place for a family to go for a walk. I remember walking up a grassy hill and rolling down it again and again. That evening when I took a bath my skin hurt. The barbs on the grass blades cuts young tender skin. It was not a fun experience. Our little home was heated with a floor furnace in the bedroom hall area between the front room and the kitchen. There was a grate across the top of it. It seemed so deep and dark. I was genuinely afraid of it the whole time we lived there. I had a little black dog, a Scottish Terrier. I was given the privilege of naming her. I called her Jet. She ...