childhood memories – Introverted runner and other stuff

The Door Knob

Last year my family and I were in Spain. We rented an apartment (I’m sorry to the locals that we are doing this). It was a building probably done in the mid 20th century and it had a European appearance (duh). The door to the apartment had the knob in the center of the door.Continue reading “The Door Knob”

He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother

Describe a family member. My bother is about 6 years older. As kids he would waffle between looking after me and torturing me. He was a good big brother and I always thought he and his friends were cool. When our dad died young, my brother took over as a surrogate father. He took careContinue reading “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother”

Family vacations

Have you ever been camping? In the 80s my family has a leisure van, I probably could have omitted “In the 80s”. It had captains seats in the front and a bench seat in the back so we sat sideways but had a great view of everything. We traveled a lot in it, going toContinue reading “Family vacations”

Class Pictures

I’m thinking of starting a book club where we read books that we enjoyed as kids/young adults. Each month a different person will choose the book. After the group discusses it the person who chose the book will discuss why it was chosen and the impact it had. I think my friends may think it’sContinue reading “Class Pictures”

Back to School Days

September 1 6th grade: School is simple. A Okay, hot shot. School is often easy in the beginning, especially in elementary school. Well I guess that I like my attitude. 8th grade: I got a lot of school clothes from [sister’s] friend. 4 days to school Hand-me-downs. A good 75% of my wardrobe. I don’tContinue reading “Back to School Days”

August

I thought I had started an August post but I guess not. I did the grades as the ones I was about to go into. August 8 10th grade: We passed papers on our new house. Yeah! It was not the house I wanted, it was old and needed a ton of work. Other housesContinue reading “August”

More summering

It’s less heavy now. July 14 8th grade: We had a mass for dad. It was nice We would have masses in people’s homes, bringing in a local priest. Seems weird, maybe it was. I remember my brother and I did readings (my sister was still in Colombia). I couldn’t pronounce “Ecclesiastes” and just lookedContinue reading “More summering”

The darkest day

This one gets its own blog for obvious reasons. 6th grade: Dad died at the age of 41 of a heart attack. So I can write a lot or I can write nothing; it doesn’t change anything and it still has an impact. I have written and talked about this a lot, ironically more soContinue reading “The darkest day”

Lazy, hazy days of summer

July 3 8th grade: Me, [cousins] stayed up all night.I smoked a cigarette for the 1st time. I hated it We stayed up all night and paid the price the next day as we had to participate in a parade the next day. We joke about it today. I do remember trying cigarettes again, sameContinue reading “Lazy, hazy days of summer”

Summertime

The livin’ was easy so I guess I wrote more. June 20 8th grade: Last day of school. I’m gonna miss [middle school] I guess we got out before I could learn “going to”. That really warms my heart that I felt this way. Someone told me that we sometimes dwell on the anticipation ofContinue reading “Summertime”