Looking back, it was a stupid thing to get upset over. But at the time I didn’t fully understand that there was difference between what they wanted and what I thought they wanted. “They” in this case was the Annual Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon and I wanted to make a donation but Mom refused…

Both Mom and Dad had warned me to be careful as I sprinted around my Aunt and Uncle’s home on Cecil Avenue. I was wearing a brand new pair of spiked shoes, my first pair ever. I literally felt like I was flying as I zipped around one corner of the home to However my…

It didn’t snow very often, however when it did, it caused lots of driving problems. The situation was no different the day the five of us piled into the bus for the trip home. On the bus were Peggy Gensaw, Debbie Wolcott, Vicki Billy, Shirley Baldwin (our driver) and myself. We were climbing up the…

The keys were jingling as Dad tried to insert one into the church’s doorknob. It went in easily but now he could not get them to turn in the lock and he could not pull it out. “Well, I was afraid of that,” Dad said as he looked down at me. He gave the set…

It was a warm summer day and I was looking forward to going horseback riding. Grandpa Bill asked me that since I was going out that way, to check on his watermelon patch, which he had hidden in a cornfield. Freckles was a young horse and could hardly wait to get saddled. We set out…

Adam could climb most any tree with great ease. And he had discovered a way to make his talent pay. He collected moss and sold it by the pound to the burl shop at the Trees of Mystery. The finer the moss, the better the price and the higher Adam had to climb. One day…

Every Springtime I would be asked by Pa Sanders to help him with his vegetable garden as he put it. Funny thing is — his idea of a garden was a couple of acres larger than most people’s plot of land on which their homes were built. I naturally jumped at the chance to get…

We were jus’ sitting down to dinner at six in the evening when the all the lights of the home flickered. About three minutes later our telephone rang; there was an emergency. Dad and I headed towards Yurok Volunteer Fire Department, which was jus’ down the street from our house. Within minutes we were racing…

We had only one local market north of town; the Woodland Villa. It was owned by Kathy and Doug DeVol’s parents. Mom and Dad sent me nearly every other day for one thing or another. This included milk, eggs and cigarettes. It was one of my favorite things to do, because it gave me a…

The foul ball came flying at me so quickly, I didn’t have time to duck out of the way. I was standing in the doorway of my teams dugout, when it struck me in the chest and knocked me down. The ball dropped between my legs as I plopped on my backside. I picked it…