my mom

[thatguy]

But she forgot and got stung twice, once in the chest and once on the forearm. I reminded her of this story. I also treated it with some calamine, only to learn that she's allergic to it, which she remembered after it got itchy. My mom has sensitive skin that reacts to soaps and lotions.

One of my cousins is a seasonal landscaper (he drives a snow plow in the not-season). He says to put toothpaste on a bee sting...

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I knew she was calling on the land line last night because I knew she'd want to talk to me about talking with DM's Steinbeck friend that had talked to my mother. Nothing I like more than talking to my mother about Steinbeck.

When I was at SJSU, I worked in the Special Collections library (with a certain Craig van der Voorhen). We worked in the back of the main collection was was mostly any books written by faculty. Also in the collection was the Beethoven Center which was a single room on the top floor of the library frequented (very infrequently) by scholars and the Steinbeck Center. Since my tenure as a student at SJSU, they tore down our library and built a bigger one, so I have no idea what happened to any of the collections, but I presume they got much larger dedicated spaces.

If she wants to talk Steinbeck, there are probably folks still there that would love to chat.

--tg