Tag Archives: childhood

Daydreaming

By Erin | Published: May 20, 2011

When I was little, I never went to sleep quickly. I fought naps when I was really little, and when I got a bit older I took Nancy Drew books to bed to read under the covers. Even when I meant to sleep, it often took a long time for me to drift off, so [...]

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Cash

By Erin | Published: April 26, 2011

Today, I watched A. through the morning to lunchtime. We took a walk, identified all the cars/trucks/SUVs/vans we passed, looked at flowers, discovered a hole in a tree, and generally enjoyed spring. We also read a large stack of library books, built a Lego tower (and promptly knocked it down), and pretended to be race [...]

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The Messy Cook

By Erin | Published: April 18, 2011

When I was younger, “Home Economics” was cooking with my mom. Sometimes, she’d let me perform a little cooking show with our culinary adventures, and I’d insist on carefully measuring everything in individual bowls so that when the actual cooking commenced, I could make the meal and properly narrate for my imaginary audience. I don’t [...]

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Floridian

By Erin | Published: March 11, 2011

While we’re on the topic of growing up in Titusville, some visuals:

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Liftoff

By Erin | Published: March 10, 2011

Growing up in Titusville, Florida, you get used to the launches, you become accustomed to the strange fact that one of our nation’s greatest technical achievements is on full display mere miles from your house, that every now and then a 300,000-pound rocket is shot from the earth into space, or that every now and [...]

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