Tag: childhood
Finding the flip side of freedom
Judith Sutherland recalls the year she made a friend who had many freedoms, the envy she felt and her eventual appreciation for her parents and their rules.
The only constant in life is change
Things always change. And that is one truth we each carry with us, no matter our station in this life," Judith Sutherland writes in her column this week.
Life on the Mississippi River
Alan Guebert recalls late-summer campouts on the Mississippi with his older brother David during his youth.
Be thankful for your upbringing
Being grounded to the earth, whether through the planting of a small garden or hundreds of acres of crops, is often seated in where we were born.
Sometimes students are heroes to teachers
Judith Sutherland recalls the day she and her classmates saved her first-grade teacher from the noisy, dizzying nightmare of a horrifying mouse.
Show and tell
Bryce Angell crafts a poem about his grandson's unique show-and-tell idea.
A season of beginnings and endings
The enormous step children take when they start school is such a bittersweet moment for parents everywhere.
Open your heart to everyday magic
Judith Sutherland reflects on the magic and wonderment of her own childhood as she considers her grandson's fascination with a magic show he enjoyed.
Charles Schulz’s cartoons gave children an unexpected hero
Who doesn't love Charlie Brown? He is sort of all of us, small and attempting to be mighty, prone to the simplest of mistakes, at one time or another.
