Revelations at a Sonics/Nets Game, Seattle, 1994

tinalear
4 min readJul 10, 2019
Who took this photo? I couldn’t find it. Whoever it was, please accept my apologies for not giving your credit.

When my daughter turned fourteen the thing she most wanted was to go to a Sonics game with three of her friends. At the Tacoma dome. This wouldn’t have been a big problem for anyone else. But for me it was hard to even think about.

I wanted to give her her greatest wish, but ever since a nervous breakdown some years before, it was a challenge to keep my cool whenever faced with…

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tinalear

Novelist. Poet. Musician. Buddhist. Quilter. Animal lover. Visible grownup. Hidden child. Secret dancer when all alone. Makes good bread.