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-15 posts tagged "childhood"
Bella Laufenberg | Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Golf, for as long as I can remember, was one of my dad’s favorite pastimes. He loved to watch golf, play golf, drink with his friends while playing golf, buy clubs for golf — you get it (I have already reached the point at which golf seems like it’s not a real word). So, as
Kate Casper | Tuesday, February 21, 2023
I remember it clear as day: The grass was yellowing, becoming more straw-like, and the fireflies by the creek were nowhere to be found, probably hibernating or doing whatever fireflies do when summer ends. Practice had just ended and the moms were too busy shepherding groups of girls into heavily bumper-stickered minivans to notice me
Dane Sherman | Friday, February 17, 2023
One of my earliest memories is gripping our kitchen’s cold, stainless steel table. It was originally a Home Depot work bench that my dads thought would look modern and hip as a dining room table. Or maybe it was just them trying to save money. My legs swung, unable to touch the ground. Their nervous
Cora Haddad | Friday, November 18, 2022
Somewhere in Indiana I will discover myself, I hope. On Tuesday, I entered my twentieth year of life. There is so much life I have already lived. So much time spent laughing and crying and crying some more. Where do I see myself twenty years from now? Hopefully, I am far away from my haunting
Peter Breen | Friday, October 7, 2022
I remember my first day of first grade. I was at a new school and my relationships with the other eight kids in my homeroom were all about the same. All eight had already gone to either Montessori or kindergarten together. I was the new kid. After a light morning of introductory material, my homeroom
Maggie Klaers | Monday, November 1, 2021
Last year, I could not believe how big of a deal Halloween was in college, but there was something so fun about watching a bunch of 20ish year olds running around playing make-believe for the night. Growing up, I had a closet of costumes in my basement with a bin full of different identities I
Gabriel Niforatos | Friday, April 30, 2021
When I was younger, I used to walk past the tallest tree in the world every day. I can still remember the way it split the concrete sidewalk beneath it like a supernatural behemoth, its trunk stretching for what seemed like miles into the sky. To my childish mind, I never dreamed I would see
Allison Thornton | Tuesday, April 28, 2020
When I was younger, the question of “what I wanted to be when I grew up” was always something I looked forward to answering. Because when I was six years old, the answer came so easily to me and I was excited to tell everyone. I wanted to become an archaeologist, who was also a
Meghan Cappitelli | Wednesday, February 19, 2020
“You are what you eat,” they say. Well I say, “You are what you watch.” I think sometimes we forget that many of us spent countless hours of our childhoods sitting in front of a television. Before school, after school, in the car — it was always there. As younger me sat on the couch,
Sarah Cate Baker | Tuesday, August 29, 2017
When I was a kid, I made a spaceship out of a giant cardboard box. It had a steering wheel like a car, and buttons to activate shields and lasers in the case of unfriendly aliens. There was no landing gear — landing would mean getting out of the spaceship, which was not the point of