Comments on numbmum: Past lives

Really beautiful. I wish I had the courage to writ...

2011-11-04T08:08:05.105-07:00

Really beautiful. I wish I had the courage to write my thoughts publicly, this is definitely inspiration but you have also set a high standard to follow. Well done, and thank you for sharing!

Jemima: My imagination is running wide and wild. ...

2011-10-17T06:04:28.295-07:00

Jemima: My imagination is running wide and wild.

Katrina: You may be right.

Liliana: Thank you. All true, and more to it, but that is for another day.

Melissa Joy: I have no idea what made me share this. I had written it a while back, inspired by the New York Times Lives column, and just thought I would put it out there.

Celina: Mitten on the beach

First time leaving a comment and I got to say I fe...

2011-10-16T20:34:57.544-07:00

First time leaving a comment and I got to say I feel so very nostalgic for your time or my own early 20's...you really captured something with this. I quite typically enjoy all your posts, especially anything with the family, but this is beautiful tonight.

Loved the story! I am taking collage classes now ...

2011-10-16T17:23:43.170-07:00

Loved the story! I am taking collage classes now that I am 36 and feeling very lost. I am taking an English writing class and have to write a report on something from my past. If only I had your past. You have had such an interesting and full past. Your family sounds so loving and accepting. Now I see why you are such a good writer. Maybe someday I will be as good as you. Keep writing I

Arabic is beautiful! I've seen it before and i...

2011-10-16T14:46:44.727-07:00

Arabic is beautiful! I've seen it before and it always looks more like art or some exotic ancient lost language. I wouldn't begin to know how many dialects there are or how to go about translating it. My guess would be that you'd have to find a linguistics expert. Maybe at a large local college? Or, you could scan it and email it to a linguistics expert somewhere else. But that's

Betsy, I found your blog on Baby Center and follow...

2011-10-15T19:52:29.557-07:00

Betsy, I found your blog on Baby Center and followed it to your personal. Am I glad I did! I held on with baited breath waiting to hear how the story would end. I can't believe you haven't translated the card. I am truly amazed. A few other readers used this word, but it seems to be the only one that fits. Thank you for writing about something personal and inviting us all to share in it.

What a fantastic story! What made you think to sha...

2011-10-14T19:00:59.523-07:00

What a fantastic story! What made you think to share it with us today? So true about our past lives before wife and mommy....I used to be a dancer and now I bake sugar cookies for a living. Who knows what I'll be 10 years from now!

Melissa Joy

KiminAZ: Arabic does look like secret code. Have y...

2011-10-14T15:22:01.867-07:00

KiminAZ: Arabic does look like secret code. Have you seen it? It's beautiful. I will post a picture. I could never begin to transcribe it and I suspect there are many, many dialects.

Wow! You never cease to amaze me! Beautiful writin...

2011-10-14T14:56:48.427-07:00

Wow! You never cease to amaze me! Beautiful writing. I felt as if I was there, a shadow in time, caught up in your foreign and romantic past. It's far more exciting than any of my past lives. It kind of reminds me of the time that you mentioned that your mother got the scarf you were admiring from an old boyfriend, whispering his name to you as if it were the secret of secrets.

Thanks Kate. Sometimes I think my brain is a pensi...

2011-10-14T10:08:00.903-07:00

Thanks Kate. Sometimes I think my brain is a pensieve. And I love the play on words, penser ( to think, in French) and sieve. Sifting your thoughts. Clever J.K. Rowling.

...mitten on the beach...cheerleader unison...Bets...

2011-10-14T08:40:18.588-07:00

...mitten on the beach...cheerleader unison...Betsy you never cease to amaze and delight with your choice of words to paint such a vivid picture of such a wonderful set of memories. Thank you for taking us with you down memory lane, it's always a joy to come with you, whereever we're going...into the Pensieve (Prof. Dumbledore reference).

Gina: You shouldn't be worried, but I know whe...

2011-10-14T08:38:09.772-07:00

Gina: You shouldn't be worried, but I know where you are coming from. I'm often sheepish about talking about my life before Ian, not that it stops me, but there is no shame in having had a life, and loves, before you met the father of your children. Yet when Ian mentions old girlfriends, some of whom he was together with when I was only in grade school, I joke with him: How dare you go

Beautifully written. Thanks for reminding me that ...

2011-10-14T08:28:25.183-07:00

Beautifully written. Thanks for reminding me that it's important to remember our past lives. I forgot sometimes while I'm so busy in the "today" working and mothering. I was married before my children's father (my husband now) and I haven't told the kids that yet. I'm worried they will be mad or disappointed in me. Do I wait or tell them now? (they are 4 and 7) And

A fabulous story!

2011-10-14T06:20:40.050-07:00

A fabulous story!

At first, I was going to beg you to get the postca...

2011-10-14T03:41:55.439-07:00

At first, I was going to beg you to get the postcard translated. On second thoughts, maybe it's better this way. Keeping it a mystery, and allowing yourself (and us!) to contemplate the endless intriguing possibilities as to what it says... Surely that's the better way to go :)

wild i meant..

2011-10-14T03:05:25.704-07:00

wild i meant..

Wow, there is no way i would rest if i did not get...

2011-10-14T03:04:46.140-07:00

Wow, there is no way i would rest if i did not get that post card translated,my imagination is also running wide and the postcard is not even mine... what is in the postcard??? and lovely writing as usual,almost felt i was there

It is intriguing. I tried once to get it translate...

2011-10-13T20:23:08.382-07:00

It is intriguing. I tried once to get it translated but, I'm not sure why, they couldn't get it. I had this sneaking suspicion/fear, he was serving a prison sentence for fleeing military service, but I could be wrong.

I'm speechless. So beautifully written. My i...

2011-10-13T20:06:18.563-07:00

I'm speechless.
So beautifully written.
My imagination is running wild with possibilities about that postcard, Betsy!

Amber