Awkward Ancestry

Episode highlights: I’ve gotten side-tracked, so let’s do a deep dive into obituaries, y’all! The purpose, history, and a handful of the wildest obituaries I could find. All links to the obits will be posted in the show notes on the website, www.awkwardancestry.com

(Lawrence Pfaff Sr., Kathleen Dehmlow , Florence Harrelson , Linda Stull , Dolores Aguilar, and Karen Short )

We’ll return to my story next week and how an obituary c...

Episode highlights: This episode covers my last two years at Harding and the summer before I moved out to Moore Hall at UNCC. I apologize to my German exchange student and I explain why my family wouldn’t allow me to go. Lots of other stories about my relatives where I try to walk the line between telling a fair and accurate account of people and events, my feelings about them, and finding redeeming qualities about people who have ...

Episode highlights: *mentions of suicide, self-harm, dieting, eating disorders* My bumpy transition into high school at Harding, but marching band made it better, but maybe also worse? My grade after the first quarter in geometry brought things to a head with Granny. I started dating, actually dating after breaking up with my 8th grade boyfriend over the summer, but that relationship isn’t healthy. Along with, and perhaps because o...

Episode highlights: This episode brought to you by the handful of jelly beans I ate before I hit record… The end of my elementary years, the transition to middle school, my year at Northwest and how two torn pages in a science book led to me changing schools. The time I got grounded for dropping the F-bomb, how I was terrified of telling Granny I was bleeding, my mother gets divorced and eventually moves into our neighborhood. The ...

Episode highlights: A menagerie of stories and recollections from my elementary years no one ever asked for but that shaped who I am today. The cemetery cats, my cousins, my experience of Granny, and I admit how little attention I paid to everything as a kid but am piecing together as an adult. I just finished the book Unearthing by Kyo Maclear and I share some of the more profound sections about the burden of secrets and the traum...

I guess you'll have to listen to find out what that's about!

Episode highlights: the things Granny and Bob fought about, my favorite neighbors, the time I was awkward and told my friend she reminded me of a banana, and what I'm calling "internet therapy" where I share some of my favorite things I've seen on instagram.

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