Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
Somehow it seemed that, The Grownups Wanted Us Dead, less and less often. I suppose they considered their work done since it was obvious we were trying to kill each other. The next morning I told Rumble to go ahead and go to school without me, because my friends Sue [...]
Perhaps it was because, The Grownups Wanted Us Dead, that my cousin Rumble and I behaved the way we did. We were emulating our elders and rehearsing for the day we would be grownups ourselves. Rumble and I practiced the art of torture through the innovative use of many common, [...]
For Al, who inspired the memory, then asked me to share it: The spring I turned 13 my dad was logging on Bumble Bee Mountain, in the St. Joe River area of Northern Idaho. In May, as soon as school was out, we took the travel trailer and moved closer [...]
The other day I went to the grocery store. All this time I have been under the impression that the grocery store was the place one went to do grocery shopping. Apparently that is no longer so. Now the thing to do is go to the grocery store, push around [...]
The world is a lot different now then it was when I was a kid. We certainly weren’t as coddled then as children are today. In fact, when I was growing up I was pretty well certain that The Grownups Wanted Us Dead. And when they weren’t trying to kill [...]