Blue Puppy I was a healthy child. I was a kid before many of today’s vaccines were available. I had the mumps when I was very young, and I don’t remember being sick. I was old, 15, when I got the chicken pox. I remember that illness well. It...
Read moreWhenever I am reading something and the author mentions a place, and then starts to describe the place, and it’s a real place: I have to look it up on a map. Putting a visual location to what I’m reading enhances the story for me. Yesterday I was...
Read moreWhen was the last time you pulled out those boxes of pictures? You know those boxes I’m talking about. The ones in your attic, or in the closet, or in the armoire, or under the bed in the guest room. The ones full of faces you may only vaguely...
Read moreI am a child of the 1970s. My formative years, my childhood, were the ’70s. I wore bellbottoms, and I had long feathered hair, aka the Farrah cut. I listened to disco music and loved it. I drank from the garden hose. I feel nostalgic when I think...
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