Kathryn Nicolai
speaker
1,487 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
Kathryn Nicolai’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I reached out to touch it, trying
Very hard not to pull on it.
When I was a kid, my mom had papered the powder room near our front door.
She'd been very careful about lining up the edges and matching the border to the dark blue of the stripe.
And it had remained fairly pristine for several years.
But we
Her children, and I suspect, even her husband, had begun to peel it away whenever we found ourselves alone in there.
It was too much to resist.
The satisfying feeling of sliding a finger under a spot where the paper had puckered and pulled away.
And to slowly and in as big a strip of possible, remove it from the wall.
Oh my poor mother.
Over the course of a summer, her pretty, elegant powder room had been denuded.
And as our destructive mischief always happened behind closed doors, she could never even catch us in the act.
I smiled, remembering how that summer had ended, with my brother and I standing shoulder to shoulder in the small room, with a steamer and scraper in our hands and piles of bluey strips at our feet.
Mom had switched to paint after that.
I must not have learned my lesson though, as soon as my fingertip found the curl of paper beside my chair.
A frisson of excitement went through me.
This was my house.
If I wanted to peel away the wallpaper, I didn't have to hide it.
I could change anything I wanted.
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