Comments | merriehaskell: Travelogue, 1997

merriehaskell

Travelogue, 1997

Oct 24, 2010 23:04

I was poking around my website today to get it updated--I had, she admits shamefacedly, not even put up a link to "Five Rules for Commuting to the Underworld," and have become just like every writer I thought I despised for being unappreciative of their own success back when I was zealously link-checking my three publications over and over.... Now ( Read more... )

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merriehaskell October 26 2010, 12:47:17 UTC

For me, yes, 22 had a distinct flavor. I was all grown up in the sense that I was basically the person I am as an adult, but simply without the same level of experience. In this travelogue, it shows very strongly to me, not only from being intrigued that an Australian only knew about Thanksgiving from The Brady Bunch (America-centric much? How should an Australian know about American Thanksgiving, really?)--but also in how I wrote of it. I tell a lot, but not the things I really consider important about traveling now (or maybe even then), and not as clearly as I could have.