My dad wrote this post after unearthing some embarrassing things from my past!–PLadd
After Robin’s Guest Blog was posted a few months ago, I figured it was inevitable that I would get the communications from Patricia that it was my turn to author a guest blog. Patricia gave me some ideas, like what I am going to be doing in retirement, but none of them seemed like they would be of particular interest to the great volume of devoted readers of her blog. I wondered what would be of interest to the blog’s readers (and also to me), and I decided upon a review of some of the artifacts of being Dad Ladd, which I have kept over the years. Some of this was motivated by finding some “art” produced by Patricia and Thomas when they were very young, while I came across when cleaning out the 20-year accumulation of items from my office when I retired last month.
So those of you who have been subjects of some of Patricia’s writings over the years (Tamiami Times, Wiess Cabinet minutes, etc.) will recognize in the following samples the evolving wit and insightful observations for which Patricia became renowned in her later writings. Unfortunately for me, I was generally the only person providing her material for her style of expression during those early years, so many of these examples are not so complementary to me. [Mom Ladd comment: If you were not such a doofus, Patricia would not have had so much material for these.] As she went out into the world, many more people provided her material and I tended to get off easier. (And maybe I did not look so bad by comparison.)
{One note here – Patricia was frequently called Tricia or Trishe in her younger days and this name shows up in some of these examples.}
So on to what you really want – Plaid PLadd original material.
Maybe this video of Patricia, when she was 2.33 years old, provides some subconscious justification for some of her comments below. (Certainly it could not be my characteristics and actions.)
This item was pretty early on, before the written portions and my characteristics started to dominate the items which I received from her.
This looks like a kindergarten or 1st grade assignment to draw and write about herself and her family. Interesting title, already knew how to throw around the “big” words.
At this age she already knew what she liked and what she wanted to do. (Teacher is pretty close to Children’s Librarian for this age.)
Patricia was pretty good at getting us to do things. She even had a T shirt that said “SLAVE MISTRESS”.
