When I was in 4th grade (I think, might have been 3rd grade), my family moved from Essexville. We moved across the river – not to Bay City – to Bangor Township. This meant a whole new school system. I had been going to Hughes School in Essexville. A fine place to go to elementary…
I usually really like the 4th of July. Not this year. I love the United States. There are so many wonderful things that this country and its people have to offer. However, we seem to have become a country of too much hate, fear and cruelty. I am not pointing fingers at anyone. I have…
My Dad and my stepmom had a cottage on Long Lake (Michigan). (The family still has one but it is another cottage – a much nicer, larger cottage.) This first cottage was nothing fancy, to say the least. It did not even have an inside toilet! At least not at first. But hey, the outhouse,…
When I was in elementary school, we had a very big playground. The perimeter was fenced in, plus there was a fence that ran down the middle – monkey bars, swings, and this deadly merry-go-round thingie (more on that later) on one side, the slide, teeter-totters, and a jungle gym on the other. At recess…
When I was a freshman in high school, I had to have the rabies shot series. This was way back, when you had to have one shot a day for two weeks, and if you missed one, you had to start over! Also, the shot was in your belly. The only place I could get…
When I was 6 years old, I was hospitalized because of an earache. It was a very weird experience, and I don’t remember the particulars too well. But I did get a Chatty Cathy out of the deal. First, it was a small, almost private, hospital, with private rooms. In the middle of the night,…
When I was in second grade, I would constantly get in trouble. Not for talking in class. Not for passing notes. Not for any of the usual misdemeanors perpetrated by second graders. I got in trouble for having a messy desk. Not the outside – the inside. And the reason my desk was always chaos…
