ALL THEM HOUSES - a memoir - an excerpt
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I had already been working for two years by then. My first job was as a clerk typist working for a downtown magazine distribution company called Gordon and Gotch which was located on Bay Street in Toronto.
After one year of working there, along with several others, I was laid off due to some kind of magazine scandal about which I never did understand the details.
I remember that day. And I remember thinking, how can I possibly go home and tell my mother I've lost my job? On my way home I stopped in at the downtown offices of the Bell Telephone Company. To my delight, I was hired that day; hired to be a teletypist. I didn't know what a teletypist was, but I figured I would learn.
I felt blessed. My unemployed status had lasted less than an hour. Instead of going home with sad news, I arrived home to give my mother the good news of my new job.
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Yes, I have jumped over a lot of pot holes in my road but, in spite of that, or maybe even because of that, my journey never ceases to amaze me.
I was seventeen, a child bride, when I moved into the basement apartment at 35 Alameda Avenue, my fourth of all them houses.
ALL THEM HOUSES, a memoir is available in paperback and kindle formats on all Amazon sites. You can find it on my Amazon Author's Page at https://amazon.com/author/audreyaustin
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