By Rainbow Robin
Age 16
We arrived Friday at 5 p.m., very tired. My sister and I had stayed up until 2 a.m. the night before. We went out to dinner; then on to Gram’s.
Gram said that mannerism wise Jessica is a lot like me and that I had taken after my Aunt Patty. I felt what she was talking about. Jessica loves me a lot and I feel the same. Scott and I are still kind of like big sis and little bro. I like him a lot too.
It was very good to see Gram and Kathy. I always get a lot of love at their house. Even through their bewilderment. The house is the same. Lily and Candi (dogs) are still there. I got along well with those two also.
My dad is really generous to us. I love him and see that he is a good guy who is trying hard. Seeing his family makes me see some of my characteristics. It’s trippy to see family and see where you got it from.
Bodie, Clover, and Gloria met us at Gram’s. It was good to see them; it was great to see Bodie. There was a lot of affection between us. I was glad to see him out of that puberty stage against girls and know that he still loves me. He is very special to me; a real soul brother.
We went back to my dad’s and Erin went home with Clover. We didn’t go to bed until late that night. I smoked in front of my dad for the first time. He says to me, “So, you’re smoking now?” I said, “It looks like it doesn’t it?”
The next day he bought me a camera. I was very happy about that; it was a big deal. Then we went to get Bodie, Clover, and Erin. We didn’t do much all day, just farted around.
I went to Gram’s and visited for a while. It was beautiful to visit with all of them. Gram and I got to sit out on the front porch by ourselves and visit. I wish I could afford to take her to Ireland.
We met up with my Uncle Ed at my dad’s and then went to Deep Ellum to see Rhett play. His band is called Sleepy Heroes. They were really good, resplendent of Brent’s TV or Sweet Baby.
No one was dancing. My mom said the Dallas scene has always been like that. I was dancing in the back. Rhett even said something about wishing people would dance, so I took the brace off of my recently fractured heel and went to the front and danced.
I was the only one so I kind of danced in the corner though. I still managed to embarrass Erin and Clover a lot.
There was one girl dancing but towards the middle of the room, so I went and asked her to come up front and dance with me. She was happy to oblige. Then I was able to motivate a lot more people to dance.
Too soon after that their show was over. I was not ready to stop dancing so I said, “Encore, encore,” and got everyone into that. The bass player said, “I’m not going to say that this is our first encore, except that it is.” I think people in Dallas aren’t as loose about that kind of stuff. I just really needed to dance, vacations are hard!
Rhett gave me a real big hug after the show. Afterward we met him at his house on Miller Avenue. His girlfriend was there. She’s really nice. I was glad because with as many girls that must be after him he could have gotten a bad one. He has good taste though I am sure.
He lives with the guys in the band. We hung out for a few hours; it was really cool. They would like to check out Humboldt and play a gig here. That would be fun. Rhett also invited me to come and stay with him in Dallas some time. I felt a real connection with him. We must have hugged ten times before I left.
Then we went and stayed the night at Ed’s. He has a really hip pad with lots of neat stuff to look at and a ton of books. I had a good time there. Ed told me some good stories, he reminds me of Pop. I like him a lot.
Ed has a recording studio in his house. That is where Rhett does some of his recording. Uncle Ed is really proud of Rhett! He wants to help make him a star. It’s really good for Rhett that there is someone in the family who knows so much about promoting music. I just hope he doesn’t push him to hard. I guess that is what it takes to make it though.
Sunday we got a rental car, and on our way out of Dallas we stopped in Highland Park. I saw mom’s high school and the house she used to live in. It was weird, we drove around a corner onto Dartmouth and Jan looked at this one empty house and said, “Let’s move in there, it looks ready for us.” Mom looked at the house and said, “That was my house.” It was the one she lived in during high school; the one where she had her black room. Then we were off to Louisiana, I slept most of the whole way.
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