Fragments From the Memory Log, Entry Twelve
I'm sick. That's right. I have some sort of viral flu-like thing attacking my body. So just put out of your mind the idea I'm ... (more...)
I'm sick. That's right. I have some sort of viral flu-like thing attacking my body. So just put out of your mind the idea I'm ... (more...)
Because of the awareness-inducing focus a task like writing incurs, I now can't help but pay attention to what are normally unsolicitous sounds from beyond ... (more...)
I don't think the adults around me comprehended that as a child among other children in the comparatively vast and irregular geometry of our neighborhood, ... (more...)
From lessons to teachers, from lunch to recess, my first six years spent in elementary school was a vast and confusing channel of mixed transmissions ... (more...)
God. I've had some trouble with him... her... over the years. As a kid, I wouldn't say our relationship was especially strained, but we had ... (more...)
What are the key ingredients for making a bad myth? I ask because I came into contact with many as a child. Some must have ... (more...)
Animals, or as I mean them here, pets, represent an occasional occurrence in my youth. For many American families they provide a regular staple to ... (more...)
There are key moments from my youth that stick out like lightning bugs in the summer darkness of an open field. Some are turning points ... (more...)
Children pick up a knowledge or understanding of things in unusual and disjointed ways. I'm talking of how they interpret the underpinnings of the world ... (more...)
When I was a kid, I was indestructible. Now that's not to say I'm some sort of titanium-skinned super being from another galaxy, or was blessed ... (more...)
Remember G.I. Joe? Let me rephrase that: remember the real G.I. Joe. Not the Joe action figure who stands a mere 3 & 3/4 inch ... (more...)
Back when I was no more than a mite of a person, still rather preformed in body and mind, way back when a computer had ... (more...)