When they were very small, my sister, Jules, always told my kiddles that she was a mermaid — and they never doubted her for a second. My entire family would go on holiday to the seaside and when they saw her fearlessly race to the water and disappear under the waves, her mile-long hair trailing behind her, they would gasp and say, “You see, Mommy, Aunt Julie really is a mermaid!”
Thank you for that gorgeous memory, Jules — and thank you for the magic you gave my children during your all-too brief stay in this world. I hope that the Land Under the Sea is all that you hoped it would be…because I now know that you truly were a mermaid.
I believe.
Happy Birthday, my sweet little sister.
On this, the day of your birth, I miss you more than you could ever know.
About muffybolding
Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.
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