About the diary writer
- Barbara McDowell Whitt
- Kansas City, Missouri, Alexandria, Virginia, United States
- ~ About: A 1961-65 Park College Diary ~ As a high school girl and then a college coed in the first half of the 1960s, I wrote nightly entries on the pages of one-year diaries. In January 2010 I began transcribing the entries into a blog and gave each one a title. I grew up on three farms within 30 miles of Iowa City and the University of Iowa with its Iowa Writers' Workshop. As the oldest of four daughters, in my diaries I sometimes referred to my sisters as "the kids" or "the girls." We helped our parents, but we also had good, wholesome fun - a characteristic I took with me to Park. Park is 300 miles southwest of West Chester, Iowa, in Parkville, Missouri, on the Missouri River 10 miles northwest of Kansas City, Missouri, and across the river from Kansas City, Kansas. In 2000 Park College became Park University. Today Park's flagship campus is in Parkville and there are an additional 41 campus centers across the nation. Park was one of the first educational institutions in the United States to offer online learning. My last post was on May 22, 2018. I may be followed on Twitter @BarbaraMcDWhitt.
Hay Making and Baby Sitting - Friday, June 16, 1961
We did more hay out at Grandma's this afternoon and baby sat for Sonja, Sheri and Rikki while Grandma went to a meeting. Rikki sure coughs bad when he's in bed. Ann didn't go out because she had another band lesson. He wanted them to come twice this week. I washed my hair tonight. It needed it. I have a permanent here at home but haven't gotten it in yet. I don't know why I'm tired in the summer time. Gee, it doesn't seem possible that I've been out of school almost a month. I haven't done a thing.
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Tired?! You make hay, drive all over, babysit. You make me tired just reading!
The part of that entry that struck me was "I haven't done a thing." I was surprised that I wrote that trite saying.
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