Dinner Is Served

[barmaidblog]

November 12, 2012"So you don't bartend anymore, but you still work for bars?" Ryan asks, twirling spaghetti with his fork and spoon in exactly the same way his father does

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Loving this

[anonymous]

Feel like I am getting back in touch with an old friend. The kind that it doesn't matter we haven't talked in years- we are just as close as we used to be. Curled up with my oatmeal and coffee and read all the new entries. Not going to lie, I may scroll all the way back and start at the beginning. Happy your're back!

Re: Loving this

[anonymous]

I totally did that - reread the whole thing from the beginning. It was like rereading a great book and I had forgotten just how great it was.

Re: Loving this

[barmaidblog]

So am I! Thanks for letting me get back in touch. :)

[jadeempress]

Great post, Debra. I've been following you (quietly) since you first started blogging. :) I've always wondered, how are you able to remember conversations with such detail? Do you have eidetic memory, or is this clarity something you've developed and honed through the years?

[barmaidblog]

Thank you, and I'm glad you're still following!

I definitely don't have eidetic memory, and I'm sure some of the people in these conversations would dispute the level of accuracy with which I'm remembering them. Honestly, I just do my best to remember the substance of the conversations and how they felt, and if I don't get the wording exactly right, at the very least I hope I captured the essence.

There's no question that I got better at it during the years I was first blogging, since I knew any conversation might end up being important enough to memorialize here. But during the off years, I wasn't focusing on that as much because I wasn't sure I'd ever return.