So here’s a funny situation about being human: when we’re kids, we want time to go faster, so we can be older! We can’t wait to be allowed to do older kid or grownup things. For me, I couldn’t wait to get to access to the non-children’s side of the public library because the booksContinue reading “Time? Faster! Wait—Slow Down!”
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Remembering Aunt Catherine
She was my great aunt. She was married to Bill Hinton who owned a trucking business and who apparently made quite a lot of money because they had a huge house slightly outside of York, PA with a huge basement, a chord organ in the living room, a pottery studio, and most importantly, the pool!Continue reading “Remembering Aunt Catherine”
Way Back When…in ‘57…
Share what you know about the year you were born. While 1957 wasn’t technically before my time, it’s before my memory-gathering kicked in. So I personally have no memories of that year to report. (Any tales of my infancy are just hearsay and therefore inadmissible here!) What do I know historically? The Sputnik satellite wasContinue reading “Way Back When…in ‘57…”
Childhood’s Paradise Lost
One of my profound regrets is the number of fireflies I caught in my jars during my childhood. I didn’t free them; I left them in the jar for the next night, but of course they never survived. And now, every summer, I only see a few of them, when there were so many whenContinue reading “Childhood’s Paradise Lost”
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