Tag: old friend from far away

  • I remember…

    I remember summer days when I would ride my bike for hours and hours around the block. I remember the smell of oil on our gravel road. The smell reminds me of summer. I remember the big mud puddle in front of our house, filled by the sprinkler. We would concoct worlds in that puddle.…

  • Without thinking too much about it, write about a time when you were truly happy

    I was standing on Mt Hood alone at twilight. It was 2009. I had just applied for my job at Sandy Library – or maybe I hadn’t applied for it yet. I think I was thinking about applying for it. Raf and I decided to have a getaway vacation in late August so we stayed at the…

  • I hear the sound of the computer fan. The sound of it is incessant and the heat from it warms up my hands as I type. I can hear cars outside in the distance driving by. I hear the typing of the keys. I am staring at this computer screen and I am seeing the…

  • My first day of kindergarten was the first time I would take a bus anywhere. The yellow bus picked me up right in front of my house. My mom reluctantly handed me off to the bus driver and away I went to school. The trip to school was fine. It was getting back home that…

  • I used to drive a Ford Pinto. In fact, it used to be Doug’s car. He actually gave me his old car when I learned how to drive. I think about that and it makes me cry. He taught me how to drive! He was the only person in the world who had the patience…