There are “sweetest days” that loom large on the marquee of a life. Wedding days, days children are born, days…
Tag: nostalgia
(This week’s theme is “Back to School.” I never was much of a first day of school junkie, so I…
The year is 1986. Every weekend my friends and I tell our parents we’re going to the midnight showing of…
What’s in my personal time capsule? Three photos held up by French magnetic poetry on our magnetic board (we have…
I spent many summers as a kid at my grandmother’s home on Lake Michigan. I used to feel bad for…
I dreamt of Africa. Since I was a small child, I yearned to make it to the “dark continent” to…
I was obsessed with love from an early age. I had my first little boyfriend when I was four and…
I’d say my first true love was my Raggedy Ann doll. In retrospect, the nice thing about falling in love…
It’s 2 a.m. (still that first night at Bootcamp) and we’ve been holding side angle bind (this is basically a…
I was torn over how far back to go to dredge up a first job story. I wasn’t sure if…