Comments on: sunday scribblings: chronicles

By: sognatrice

sognatrice — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:03:00 +0000

Andie, thanks, and thanks for going back and reading all these posts

By: andie summerkiss

andie summerkiss — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:50:00 +0000

You wrote so passionately about your love of writing. That’s really beautiful.

By: sognatrice

sognatrice — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:42:00 +0000

*Bonggamom, so many different ways to leave our marks on the world…literally

*Miss Eliza, hmm, maybe I *will* post a sample someday….

*Karina, lucky you! I love looking through old journals; I wish I had more of mine here.

By: Karina

Karina — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:26:00 +0000

This was wonderful. I’m so glad you did this meme so we all had a chance to read some of your earlier posts, before we’d discovered you. This one I completely identified with, especially since I’ve just recently found my old journals, and am slowly going through all of them, admiring not just how I wrote, but what I chose to write about at any given time.

By: Miss Eliza

Miss Eliza — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:32:00 +0000

i love this post… i, too, feel a need every once in a while to reinvent my handwriting - i always study other peoples’ and steal the things i find most compelling. Maybe you should scan a sample so we can see it - then i can snake something of yours!

By: Bongga Mom

Bongga Mom — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:18:00 +0000

I like your interpretation of chronicles… how you can chronicle your life through your crafts/hobbies (embroidery for the ladies and handwriting for you)!

By: sognatrice

sognatrice — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:07:00 +0000

Oh, Giulia, I forgot to say that those old women just kept on doing what they were doing, didn’t even pay attention to me. Of course they’re used to me by now

By: sognatrice

sognatrice — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:02:00 +0000

Thanks for all the comments, and from so many new readers! Glad I could bring back some memories, especially of those Italian nonnas It’s good to know I wasn’t alone in my handwriting exercises.

Bec, I got my handwriting analyzed by a machine at a fair one time, but I don’t remember what it said. I definitely believe in that sort of thing, though, and would find it most interesting to see how I changed as demonstrated by my handwriting. Now to get all those old journals in one place–preferably on this continent.

Metalia, I hope you never had to live in your garage. Unless, of course, it was one of those redone, hip ones they always have on TV, in which case, I hope you got a lot of 78s.

And Ginkers, my favorite quip of my grandmother’s: “You can’t win for losing.”

By: ginkers

ginkers — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:53:00 +0000

There is something about a nonna isn’t there? I wanted to try to distil the wisdom of mine into some kind of book. She was full of wise sayings like “a joke’s a joke but that’s beyond a joke” and fatalistic pronouncements like “ah si, uno nasce, uno muore…”.

By: metalia

metalia — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:24:00 +0000

Hi I found you through Guinness Girl.

This was such a sweet post; and it brought up such memories…I remember pretending to write like me mom, even though it was just a bunch of scribbles. I also kept all my notes from school. I don’t even know why, but it was very rewarding when I recently stumbled across my journal from 3rd grade, opened it up to a page at random, and cracked up, as it read: “Dear Journal, I got a 78 on the Math Test. I am Dead. Maybe I will live in the garage.”