lou huxtable

I often felt I was the long lost 6th Huxtable child. I felt like I belonged with these people. Cliff and Claire were so much like my parents and the family dynamic was so much like mine. The policing of food, the passive vs. aggressive, the rules, the values, the humor. I remember being so disgusted by Denise and her floundering flighty ways and I was so annoyed that she couldn't figure out her passion and what she wanted to do with her life. I recently realized, I AM DENISE.............. At least I keep my whimsical dreams of life aspirations to myself and don't come home and sit in the chair by the couch and reveal all my hopeless whims to my parents to be shot down and eyes rolled and oh denise wamp wamp wamp........ Just another crazy goal never to be attained. I'm a quitter and a flake like her. If only I had known then that the Cosby show would prophesize my entire life.

While I've turned out to be Denise all I ever really wanted was to be Claire.......