My Life in Fur (Part 2)
“Merry Christmas to you, too!”
Recently, the Medium publication C(G) SNAPSHOTS issued a challenge in which participants were invited to submit images for their Snapshot Selfie Challenge. Being the camera-phobe that I am — no, really; until recently yours truly used the same avatar across all social media for almost six years (don’t judge) — I opted to submit a snapshot of a few mementos that signified different periods of my life. Oddly enough, one object in my snapshot that garnered a few comments was a vintage Donald Duck bobblehead from the late 1960s or early 1970s, described in the text accompanying the image as: symbol of my former alter-ego, vehicle of torture, and self-discovery — let’s talk about that some time.
Well . . . the time has come.
We all have backstories of previous lives; adventures few would believe that the people we are now would ever have been a party to. So in the interest of mixing it up a little, I’m unpacking the story behind the bobblehead in two installments. This is the second installment. Enjoy!
I wished I paid more attention to what the Wardrobe specialist told me during my fitting when I auditioned. I…
