When I moved in with my grandmother, I finally had three meals a day. Breakfast was usually Cheerios and canned fruit like peaches, cherries, and pears. I didn’t like it. It’s amusing to me that I had the nerve to be picky after years of food shortage. But compared with Captain Crunch and Lucky Charms… [...]
Month: June 2026
Part 1: Miss Piggy, That’s Me.
Food was not abundant in my childhood. I can still tell you exactly what you would find if you looked in the refrigerator upstairs at the Port Byron Bar & Hotel in 1991. You would primarily see the white interior of the refrigerator, plus a few items illuminated under the flickering fluorescent lights. Milk, if [...]
Cliff Dangling
Most of the memories I have of my childhood are partial memories. They begin like a movie. A scene is set… but there is no telling where it’s going… and then it ends without much of a conclusion. It was simply an event in my life with enough emotion to cause recall. Like the bike [...]
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