Posted by Barely Knit Together on Oct 5, 2009 in
Creative Nonfiction,
Writing
The house I grew up in is now a store. A running and walking shoe store, to be exact. The point is, you can walk in whenever they’re open and see the dining room where I played piano and made up songs about my brother’s stuffed animals, the kitchen where I learned of my parents’ [...]
Tags: childhood, memory, mourning, youth
Posted by Barely Knit Together on May 9, 2009 in
Motherhood
I am reading an elementary school version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to my little guys lately. I wasn’t sure if it was too early to start chapter books, especially with Ethan only four years old and a little…energetic. And easily distracted, too.
But he loves it. I don’t know if it’s the starting fires [...]
Tags: childhood, Huck Finn, overprotectiveness, quantum physics, wildness, woods