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About Kate Chen

Writing a memoir about writing a memoir while experiencing memory loss caused by multiple sclerosis. Graduate of GrubStreet's Memoir Generator and Memoir Incubator. Published in Momentum's humor section, National Multiple Sclerosis Magazine. Former Executive Directive, Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science; Director of Gifts and Grants, Harvard Sten Cell Institute; Communications Manager, Western Academy of Beijing. Vassar College, '90, Philosophy major I live in Allston, MA my old and spunky beagle-basset named Sunday.

Stuffies

stuffies

I dreamt stuffed animals (‘stuffies’) were mating and having lots and lots of tiny stuffs that started to pile up all over, filling up the whole earth with fuzzy animals.  I was looking down on the earth from space and could see just a ball of stuffies growing and growing.

[This gave me a panicky nightmare feel.]

Red Sox caps

baby red sox cap

I  dreamt that everyone in Boston was required, effectively immediately, to always wear a Red Sox baseball cap.  I put on mine.  People who put on Red Sox shirts or other items were being arrested by police in proper caps.  Women on Beacon Hill in fancy clothes were donning the caps with dismay and disgust.   Mobs of moms were running past me trying to get home their strollers of babies not properly adorned.

Home fries

HomeFries

I dreamt I was sitting alone having breakfast in a diner and a Chinese man was doing the same at the table next to mine.  He ordered 4 eggs, scrambled, bacon, wheat toast, and no home fries in rather broken English.  The waitress came back and scooped about two eggs worth of scrambled eggs right onto the table in front of the man and left. Continue reading →

Dream a dream

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“Dream Weaver,” Gary Wright

I dreamt that a former boyfriend reappear, just standing beside me in an empty white void; it was a very comforting surprise.

I woke up.   I went to the library where I met on the entrance stairs this ex- and his girlfriend.  I said to him, “I dreamt about you last night.”  His girlfriend whispered, “I am sorry.”  She grabbed my hand and we left the library, leaving the boyfriend on the stairs.  I looked back at his shocked face as I was lightly led away by her.

I woke up.

[First time I ever dreamt within a dream.  I would insert a post into this post if I knew how.]

Liquid center

I dreamt that I threw a Greenie treat to my dog and it started to expand between his paws to the size of a breadbox.  When he bit into it, it had a green liquid center.  I gave him a white rawhide stick and that also started to expand, to the size of a compact car.  He gnawed on it, and it had a white liquid center.  He jumped up onto our couch, and the couch inflated to the size of a bus.  His claws popped it and so much matching grey liquid center spilled out that my dog was floated right out of the front door.  My dog was pleased throughout the dream.

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