Laura Hall's Blog, page 2
June 6, 2021
The month before release
My publicist tells me that it is typical for authors to get weepy the month before their books are released. That is this month. Plus, June is Pride Month and San Francisco is awash in rainbows and memories. Book bloggers on Instagram are recommending books for Pride Month. I am thrilled that my memoir is Read More...
The post The month before release first appeared on My Dad's Closet.
May 9, 2021
Affliction
My first memory of my father, in 1952, was of him on the other side of our kitchen door. I was 18 months old and sitting in the dark on our dining room floor, my eyes fixated on the thin yellow line of light under the door. I could hear the electric percolator, and the Read More...
The post Affliction first appeared on My Dad's Closet.August 1, 2020
A pandemic dream
The elevator doors opened, and there he was. It was as if it were the most natural thing of all for my deceased father to visit me in my downtown office. He looked at once old and wise and youthful and carefree. He grinned from ear to ear upon seeing me. After a kiss, he Read More...
The post A pandemic dream first appeared on My Dad's Closet.July 12, 2020
I look to my father
I’m wired like my mother was, a little jittery in the best of times. But her anxiety during difficult times seemed to subside when she was either taking photos or working in the photography lab where she long worked. I believe photography was something that gave her life meaning. It got her through some of Read More...
The post I look to my father first appeared on My Dad's Closet.January 20, 2020
My love letter to Schitt’s Creek
My daughter is the one who first told me about Schitt’s Creek. Do you really think I’ll like it? I asked. It seemed a silly premise for a TV show, an over-the-top rich family losing their money and moving to a motel in a small town. “I promise you, Mom,” she said. “You’ll love it.” Read More...
The post My love letter to Schitt’s Creek first appeared on My Dad's Closet.December 1, 2019
World AIDS Day 2019
Today is World AIDS Day. Every December 1 since 1988 has been designated as such to mourn those lost to the disease and to raise awareness. To date, more than 30 million have died as a result of AIDS. Some of those who died in the early years of the epidemic left behind children who Read More...
The post World AIDS Day 2019 first appeared on My Dad's Closet.November 11, 2019
Veterans Day
On Dec. 9, 1941, two days after Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor, my father’s army unit at Fort Ord in Monterey caravanned to remote areas of northern California to guard railway bridges from similar bombing attacks. Here he is in Keddie in the Feather River Canyon where his unit was patrolling the Keddie Wye, a Read More...
The post Veterans Day first appeared on My Dad's Closet.December 23, 2018
My confession on World AIDS Day
“Don’t be sad,” he told me. It was World AIDS Day 2018. I was attending an event in the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park. We were there to honor not only those lost to AIDS but also the children left behind. A member of the Grove’s Board of Directors sat next to Read More...
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