tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803815968398954522024-02-18T22:45:46.745-05:00365 Humans365 people that I know or have met............
I will be using fiction along with non-fiction to write about 365 people that I know. I will use fictional names and photographs when necessary to protect the true identity of some, while others will be described and written about that are real.........in every aspect of the word.Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-18130652170080128782019-04-17T14:44:00.001-04:002019-04-17T21:02:34.081-04:00#48 Valerie S : Just Breath
Valerie and Rachel
I have known Valerie since the eighties .... I was at Chippenham Hospital...AGAIN this time with my daughter, Rachel, who had badly burned her ankle. A fondue Pot accident on New Years Eve. Rachel spent a month in the hospital .... we kinda lived there. At the end of the hall on the pediatrics ward , is where the "oh so important" Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-42967356425848806872019-04-11T09:48:00.000-04:002019-04-11T09:48:56.181-04:00#47 : Jeff: Under Armor
Some of us make a bucket list in a cathartic way, we put things down on paper that we would like to do before we die. I even bought a book once called 1000 things you should see before you die. (I gave this to someone actually that never returned it, sadly) I bought the book, I made a list, I lost the list, that was many years ago. I am curious to see how many people Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-18098449494889460622019-04-05T23:03:00.003-04:002019-04-05T23:03:42.841-04:00#46: Little Firefly: Stephanie B.
Stephanie.
I met Stephanie when I did a photo shoot with her son and his band members at the "beach" on our lake here in my neighborhood 3 years ago. She called me afterwards and scheduled her son's photo shoot for his senior photos. And just like that....we were fast friends. She read my blogs, she encouraged me and I her as we both had creative endeavorsAnjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-59380475481876745282019-03-21T15:16:00.001-04:002019-03-21T15:16:14.304-04:00#45: Debbie H. ... .Filling an Empty Chair
Sometimes you meet someone and they just "blow you away" by their very presence. Its like you had a chair empty and you didn't even know it, until someone sat in it. When this happens to me I think perhaps that I have met an "earth angel." Its almost like fate or God or kismet or what ever your thoughts may be attracted to puts people in your path to shine a Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-19545254775142030652017-02-02T14:58:00.000-05:002017-02-18T10:18:25.803-05:00#46 : Donna... a life . DISMISSED
Through out my life there have been things I have "known" without a reasonable explanation.... yesterday was one of those days ... It was Feb. 1, 2017 and the event happened the day before.
Obit here: CLICK HERE
So I was sitting having dinner in my local favorite restaurant when I read the news. I immediately "knew" what had happened. I have this thing...its a gift , its Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-66511058728901509992017-01-09T11:30:00.000-05:002017-01-09T16:24:33.915-05:00#45 : Gloria .....Bares All....
I met Gloria, years ago, but I didn't really know Gloria until after she moved next door.
I saw her around town, at football games, at bingo, at the grocery store in this small town it is not hard at all to run into someone you know - every where you go.
I met Gloria in her "hay day" as they call it. She ran a successful interstate trucking business from her Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-17736001696246186882016-10-05T17:54:00.000-04:002016-10-06T13:09:14.206-04:00#44 LARRY VAN WEST
This is my 15 year old self with my dad. I wish I had a clearer photo but I don't. What is clear.... crystal clear is my memories of being 15 and living with my Dad. I came here today to write about an incident, a person a 1/365 who have made me what and who I am today.....and it was not my Dad I had in mind.
I lived outside of New Orleans, a Parrish (like a Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-87160990495827824912016-03-05T20:14:00.002-05:002017-05-18T09:06:43.695-04:00#43 Denise.....and our Messy selves...smoke, ashes and sootThe day I met her.... I was on the way...literally to the delivery room and she is in the hallway ...in one of those gowns with the back cut out...she had given birth only a couple of days before and she was hollaring down the hall to my husband.
"HEY.... Timmy .... what are you doing here?" she laughs when she talks so imagine a great big smile, resembling mine with a Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-63239732313216312962016-01-05T14:41:00.000-05:002016-01-06T21:59:07.280-05:00#41 : Gotta Love "GaDoris"
I was putting up the Christmas Decorations and found my wooden box that holds Christmas Cards... and I sat down a minute and ruffled through the box, knowing that this awesome tradition of Seasons Greetings was dying. I knew that moment that I would be contributing to the demise of this tradition as I had skimmed the mailing of the cards from my cost(s) at Christmas. Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-28186034921605083232015-08-09T12:39:00.001-04:002015-08-09T12:39:50.302-04:00#40: "Walker"...... Are you having fun yet?
Photo Credit: Danny G.
So everyone called him "Walker" .... not me. It appeared every time that I ran into him , usually at the grocery store, there was always someone else that would run into him too, and say "Hey Walker!" ..... but he had introduced himself to me from the beginning as "Alan" and that is what I called him.
I met him in 2001 when the "tractor supply" Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-75849288792873845242015-07-10T08:37:00.001-04:002015-07-10T12:38:25.677-04:00#39 Mrs. Spence: Mother of Mary
I was living in government subsidized housing, I had just moved in. I had a wooden picnic table for a kitchen table...... a couple of beds, a toy box, a sofa I bought from my girl friend, Pam, for $25 and a child.....almost 2 years old.
Olan Mills hired me and I could have not been happier, after all I was making $4 and hour PLUS bonus if I met my weekly goal in Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-16394484760762641202015-06-03T15:25:00.001-04:002015-06-03T15:36:00.107-04:00#38: Destiny's Child.....
DEAR DESTINY........
Destiny..... AKA "Bug" you were so little when I first laid my eyes on you. You were not even two years old. Your hair was a mess, your clothes did not match, your little eye was turned in.... you had jelly on your chin and you were BEAUTIFUL.
It was just days after I met you that I became your babysitter...I watched you while your Mamma ran Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-43493236043671617332015-05-31T00:44:00.001-04:002016-01-11T06:55:19.656-05:00#37: Heather : Stairway to Heaven
Photo: RTD OBITS... May 26, 2015
I don't even know where to start..... I don't "do" many funerals or memorial services....and when I do them....I don't do them well. I am devastated that today, I didn't do the service. But I wanted to...so badly.... unlike any other service...EVER. I have lost many people that are close to me in my young 53 years on this Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-2257464807654789032015-04-26T17:42:00.000-04:002015-09-08T14:46:04.655-04:00#36 Here Come da Judge...... with a heart "SCOTTY"
Most remember people when they pass away by trying to remember the good times, good memories or good words. Sometimes , depending on the deceased, those words are hard to find. Not in this case ...this case was my cousin's husband...my cousin in law..... Charles Rex Scott.....the family calls him Scotty.
You see he has made many friends in this world for many reasons and IAnjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-67789381585357801482015-04-08T08:54:00.003-04:002015-09-08T14:20:42.905-04:00#35 That Crazy Cat lady.....My Pittsburg Pittbull... Friend
So our relationship ..... was odd...... to put in mildly. We went to the same high school together, had a lot of things in common, knew many of the same people yet we really didn't know each other well at all...until....... she started dating my high school sweetheart... .somehow ...she thought that she then knew me and didn't like me at all, simply because I was friends with "him."
Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-47587560713723091642015-03-01T19:14:00.001-05:002015-03-02T07:44:44.794-05:00#34...... THAT GIRL.... Walking down the street..... "Vicky L."
VICKY (selfie) stolen from her FB page...
Because I don' t have many photographs from my being a baby, childhood nor the teen years - not like all my friends have .... with all of the memorable trips, holidays and special times etc due to several factors in my life
fire burning a lot of my personal belongings / photographs
being somewhat of a gypsy for many yearsAnjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-11779907399960143782015-02-21T15:16:00.000-05:002015-02-21T15:23:06.454-05:00#33 : A Steel Magnolia...... Aunt Letha Lee
she said "you wouldn't believe how cute these babies are" she loved GRACIE as we all do...
She was the matriarch of my large Kay Family......yes she was. I am not sure if that occurred before or after my grandma kay died. Grandma Kay was a little bitty woman , all of 5'0 or 4'11 if the truth be known. She married my great grandfather, Pinkney Kay whoAnjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-33190733214215600062014-08-23T12:49:00.001-04:002014-08-23T13:21:29.307-04:00#32 .... SYDNI...... The Thief
This is the photo ^^^^ "image" that tugged at my heart....... I knew her....and her family from afar. How could you not? If you live(d) in Powhatan, you had or have heard of the Brawleys. They came in like a storm and made their mark....all over the place. A single mom with 5 children each with a unique talent of some sort...and ALL with a Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-14781435907506145562014-08-17T12:11:00.003-04:002014-08-17T12:11:36.188-04:00RUSS.....#31 ... A diamond in the rough
Russ is in a nursing home, his earthly belongings have been sold and he is sick. He is very sick.
I met him for a moment , a day in fact....the day I was photographing the Brown wedding at OBX. He was there.
He limped just a little but he smiled a lot . He was one of the groomsmen - The "Best" Man and he was happy.
I didn't know anyone before I Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-89633684256894644132014-01-23T19:41:00.001-05:002014-06-20T21:51:31.257-04:00#30 .... BAZINGA! Belinda aka "Southside"
DEAR BELINDA..........
Its been exactly two years since you left "us" and I say "us" lightly because I didn't know you really in my everyday life. I will always remember the day you left us, as it was just one day after my birthday.
I knew you best through my lens, my camera lens, the lens that sees more than the common eye. I knew you through your boyfriend, Les, &Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-81269022455785423832013-01-23T21:56:00.003-05:002015-09-08T14:30:36.753-04:00#29 MIMO : Mimosa
Framed Photo I took of Mimo & Maggie I am glad she loved my photography and encouraged me in it from about the time I was about 12 years old.
"Government subsidized apartments"..........what does that mean when you are a child? it means everyone that lives near you. around you , next door and even in your house needs a reduced rate of living.... for one Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-71744135079466843162012-01-25T21:54:00.003-05:002012-01-25T22:04:56.241-05:00#26 The "cool" teacher....... Mr. Christian Miller...........Today I was reading a facebook status from one of our local leaders............MR MILLER.............. I see him around Powhatan all of the time....... he is a teacher, a leader and a friend to so many.
There is a current contest to nominate VA teachers for an award..........DETAILS HERE; I think he should win........
If you live in Ptown and are any way connected to the "Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-74350527272628376102012-01-07T16:44:00.005-05:002012-01-07T16:50:53.745-05:00#25 Vicki and Cows and Moons and such..........Little do people know but the cow really "flew" not jumped over the moon"
Some countries view the cow as a sacred animal. I don't know exactly why they call them sacred but my friend , the one dressed as a cow...when I found her..... is sacred to me.
My beautiful friend Vicki.
You see I met her back in the olden days ........the days in which couponers and rebaters united through Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-26466699374922213472011-10-22T01:35:00.001-04:002011-10-22T01:39:13.780-04:00#24 THE SLAMMER and "all the important things"
This is actually a photo of a "business card" in my roladex on my desk. Its been there ........... for years. I cannot take this card out and throw it away, although the card is considered "no longer any good" today. You see "slammer" died.
I didn't know him "well" but I knew him "often" I would visit this thrift store frequently as they had the best prices Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880381596839895452.post-42589588137427003542011-06-23T18:24:00.001-04:002015-09-08T14:36:46.644-04:00A Cast of Atlantic City Characters ....... #23 RAIN MAN
^^^^^^^WATCH ME FIRST^^^^
If you have not seen "RAIN MAN" starring Tom Cruise you need to stop what you are doing and watch it via NETFLIX or AMAZON instant download, it is a Great Movie with great characters, including Dustin Hoffman as "Rain Man." One of the most lovable movie characters ever created in my opinion. I don't have much experience working with Anjie Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473839479060696243noreply@blogger.com0