Katherine sat in her favorite corner of the couch and leaned forward slightly as she watched the characters on her favorite TV program solve yet another unsolvable problem through friendship and ingenuity. On the other side of the house, her Momma decided that the computer needed to be turned off (be it because of the [...]
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Grocery Store Philosophers
Posted in Childhood, tagged eggs, grocery store, instruction on January 26, 2008 | Comments Off
With one hand clutching the top of the shopping cart’s wire basket and both feet precariously pressed against the metal rod on which the wheels were mounted. She leaned out as far as should could, then grabbed frantically at the cart when it began to tip over. She giggled with delight and looked at the [...]
A Short Christmas Memory
Posted in Childhood, tagged Christma on December 26, 2007 | Comments Off
When I was a little girl, my mother bought a small, fake Christmas tree to put up in my room, so that you would see a Christmas tree through the front window. We had a doll house where the roof opened up into a flat surface and the tree stood on top of that. [...]
Christmases of Long Ago
Posted in Childhood, tagged Christma on December 26, 2007 | Comments Off
Six-year-old Katie knelt reverently at the coffee table, placing an olive on each finger with great care. “You have to be real careful,” she told her three-year-old sister, Angel, “so you don’t bite your finger off when you eats ‘em.” The girls had on red and green party dresses with white tights on [...]
