[Found this in an experimental domino blog on Yoda. Not sure if the date was when this happened or just when I was experimenting.]

Monday 10th, March 2003

Riding home from the Girl Scout father / daughter dance where Kelly, Mary Claire, and I all danced to oldies dressed in Hawaiian outfits, Mary Claire asked… “Dad, when you were born, did girls wear Poodle skirts.” Kelly jumped in, “That was in the 50’s.” I added, “And I was born in the sixties.”

Thinking about that, she then asked, “When you were born, were you free?” I asked her, “What do you mean by that?” She said, “You know how Martin Luther King helped make people free.”

I was surprised by her question. “Mary Claire, when I was little, I wasn’t black.” Kelly started laughing. I went on to explain how when I was born, there was segregation, but that I was little when Martin Luther King helped get rid of separate seating on buses and in restaurants, so I didn’t really remember things being segregated.

“She thought about that…. “Well did you have big hair?” I asked, “Do you mean an afro?” She said, “Yes.”

I had to explain to her again, that I wasn’t black when I was little. Kelly kept cracking up.

Posted by Jeb 02:14 PM

Kelly and I went white water rafting on the Ocoee River with the SJN Life Teen Saturday. It started off very cloudy and cool on the drive up to Tennessee, but by the time we arrived the sun was out. We had a fun, warm trip. The water was high and the waves full. Kelly was the first to “ride the bull”, which means sitting on the front holding onto a rope. She had the wildest ride as we ended up spinning through some rapids, and she got knocked back into the boat by a huge wave of water. “For a second I as drowning,” she said. But she thought it was fun.

This photo sequenece shows Jacqueline riding the bull (and falling off, too.)