By Barbara Girion. I couldn’t find a lot of information on her, she didn’t achieve Judy Blume status, but I think she is still alive. I did see that she wrote “Misty and Me”, I remember reading that and will tr6 to find it somewhere. I was looking for something last week and found thisContinue reading “Book Report: Like Everybody Else”
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Fifth Grade Book Report – Blubber
I’m thinking of having a book club where we read books from our childhood. Young adult novels. Discuss the book as usual but also discuss what we remember and why the book was chosen. I’m starting to go back to some I remember. Last week I read “Blubber” by Judy Blume. I’m not sure ifContinue reading “Fifth Grade Book Report – Blubber”
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”
Introverted runner and other stuff 