Writer's Block: Places to Lay Your Head
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I was born in Findlay, Ohio at Blanchard Valley Hospital. Lived in a nice house pretty close to the hospital, just around the corner from my grandparents. That house burned to the ground a few years after we moved out.
Our next house was on Hillcrest Ave. on the other side of town. I lived there until I was almost 10. Then my parents decided to move to Columbus, and my brothers and I temporarily lived with our grandparents.
1985 - Columbus, Ohio! Clinton Street, in a duplex in a really crappy neighborhood. We didn't live there long. We moved to the west suburbs later that year - Lincoln Village. First we lived in Yarmouth Lane and then we moved to Sturbridge (both single-family homes). This covered my residences from ages 10-16. Then my parents separated and my Mom and I moved into an apartment. I lived there until after high school. Then my mom met my stepdad and they bought a house together and I moved in with my dad, back to the house on Sturbridge.
In 1995, I got an apartment on the eastside of Columbus with a roommate. Awful neighborhood. My roommate and I worked two jobs (both of our jobs were at the same place, so we were constantly together) to pay the rent. I didn't live there long either...less than a year. I sublet and moved in with my mom and stepdad until I went back to college in early 1996.
Then I lived with my paternal grandmother in a trailer home in Van Buren, Ohio while I commuted to Bowling Green State University, spending a brief time again with my grandparents in Findlay. My second semester, I rented a room in a boarding house near campus.
Then I transferred to Ohio State, living with my mom and stepdad again, who were by then living in a house on Maribeth Place in Grove City, OH. I stayed there until I got my own apartment on Chambers Avenue in 2000, close to OSU campus. I had already graduated from OSU at that point. I was working at nearby Chemical Abstracts.
I lived at that apartment for a year. I moved back in with my mom and stepdad for a few months, until I moved down to Oxford, OH for grad school. I lived in a townhouse-style apartment there on Locust St. for 2 years. Moved back in with the parents again until Lance and I got married and we moved to Germany (by this time, they were living in another house on Cypress Creek Drive...just down the street from where they live now).
Two houses in Germany: one in Kreuzrath on Hauptstrasse. The other in Schierwaldenrath on Am Bahnhof.
And now here...in Kent, Washington.
Least favorite - probably my room at the boarding house. Awful roommates and I never had any privacy.
Most favorite - the house in Schierwaldenrath. I loved it so much. Except for all the spiders. I think I have the best memories there. Lance and I were so happy in Germany.
I was born in Findlay, Ohio at Blanchard Valley Hospital. Lived in a nice house pretty close to the hospital, just around the corner from my grandparents. That house burned to the ground a few years after we moved out.
Our next house was on Hillcrest Ave. on the other side of town. I lived there until I was almost 10. Then my parents decided to move to Columbus, and my brothers and I temporarily lived with our grandparents.
1985 - Columbus, Ohio! Clinton Street, in a duplex in a really crappy neighborhood. We didn't live there long. We moved to the west suburbs later that year - Lincoln Village. First we lived in Yarmouth Lane and then we moved to Sturbridge (both single-family homes). This covered my residences from ages 10-16. Then my parents separated and my Mom and I moved into an apartment. I lived there until after high school. Then my mom met my stepdad and they bought a house together and I moved in with my dad, back to the house on Sturbridge.
In 1995, I got an apartment on the eastside of Columbus with a roommate. Awful neighborhood. My roommate and I worked two jobs (both of our jobs were at the same place, so we were constantly together) to pay the rent. I didn't live there long either...less than a year. I sublet and moved in with my mom and stepdad until I went back to college in early 1996.
Then I lived with my paternal grandmother in a trailer home in Van Buren, Ohio while I commuted to Bowling Green State University, spending a brief time again with my grandparents in Findlay. My second semester, I rented a room in a boarding house near campus.
Then I transferred to Ohio State, living with my mom and stepdad again, who were by then living in a house on Maribeth Place in Grove City, OH. I stayed there until I got my own apartment on Chambers Avenue in 2000, close to OSU campus. I had already graduated from OSU at that point. I was working at nearby Chemical Abstracts.
I lived at that apartment for a year. I moved back in with my mom and stepdad for a few months, until I moved down to Oxford, OH for grad school. I lived in a townhouse-style apartment there on Locust St. for 2 years. Moved back in with the parents again until Lance and I got married and we moved to Germany (by this time, they were living in another house on Cypress Creek Drive...just down the street from where they live now).
Two houses in Germany: one in Kreuzrath on Hauptstrasse. The other in Schierwaldenrath on Am Bahnhof.
And now here...in Kent, Washington.
Least favorite - probably my room at the boarding house. Awful roommates and I never had any privacy.
Most favorite - the house in Schierwaldenrath. I loved it so much. Except for all the spiders. I think I have the best memories there. Lance and I were so happy in Germany.