January: Playlist
As I was getting the blog hop URLs in November ready, I noticed one of the titles someone chose was "these days" which immediately got the song by John Mayer stuck in my head ("83") from his album Room for Squares which was the CD my stepsister and I played to death in her '96 Dodge Neon the year she learned to drive. I can smell the cheap upholstery and feel the click of the Dairy Queen Blizzard spoon between my teeth and thought: "this is our next blog hop."
We're doing so much thinking about today and next week and how we have no idea what 2021 is going to look like... but we do know what 2001 looked like, and 1999, and 2006. Why don't we write about those?
I want you to make a playlist from a time they remember vividly, one where you are transported back so fully that you can taste the cheap soft serve and remember the sound of a CD ejecting from a car stereo... and then write about it. Set the scene. Put us in the car / the gym / the bedroom that has both purple floral bedsheets and a N*SYNC poster.
If you can, maybe even skip writing about your children. I know -- that’s where our hearts are a lot of the time. But maybe let’s give those mothering thoughts a break and just write about us for a minute. Reach for the stories that include our childhood friends, our old haunts, the boys that are not now our husbands.
P.S. Ashlee Gadd has a friend who wrote about John Mayer -- just like what got me thinking about this blog hop!
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