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Our elementary school was starting a band program. Everyone on the bus was all abuzz after the day’s assembly where the instruments were paraded out and played before our wondering eyes and ears. “I’m going to play the flute,” says one girl, bouncing in her seat. “Me too!” parrot several… Continue Reading How Velvet Verbosity Came to Play the Trombone
In Shannock the best sledding hill is my backyard. On snow days all the kids from the neighborhood gather there, dragging their bladed sleds and blue saucers. The “hill” is an enormous bowl in the ground…a crater. So we have contests to see who can make a run down the… Continue Reading Oh the Thrill of it All
My first bike crash is at the hands of our neighborhood bully. I am 4 or 5 years old, riding my red tricycle down the uneven sidewalk, back and forth between my front drive and the tree that marks the end of our property. She is there, behind the tree,… Continue Reading Crashes…
Everyone has a mum, and I’d like you to meet mine. I have an ulterior motive internet, but it is a noble one, I assure you. (Hang in with me on this one, there’s bound to be tears.) You see, for years I’ve watched my mom struggle and sacrifice. I’ve… Continue Reading Everyone Has a Mum, Here’s Mine
Nick
The news that our school was to have a band was announced during a 5th-6th grade assembly. Assemblies were exciting news in and of themselves. Who knew what could happen at an assembly? Maybe the hoped for petting zoo and circus wouldn’t materialize after all, but no matter, because we… Continue Reading Monday Memoirs – Snotty Dotty and the Trombone
