tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626155282643563585.post6912287297732037051..comments2023-05-26T03:51:58.644-04:00Comments on Tightly Wound...: It gets easier? Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10488623970838627044noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626155282643563585.post-35126245714201928232013-05-19T09:43:36.657-04:002013-05-19T09:43:36.657-04:00The cemetery had a tall, imposing fence with only ...The cemetery had a tall, imposing fence with only two openings, neither of which were access points that would make the walking route faster. Also - cemeteries are scary places; even in daylight. Every Irish-Italian Catholic kid knows that!<br /><br />I do remember plastic bags between shoe and boot! I only wish I could remember how Frankensteinly my feet must have felt with all those layers fo footwear. <br /><br />The kids often come to my office on Friday afternoons; only two blocks from school. This time, my remote office was one of the performance halls in the campus arts center. A place they see me work in many capacities. <br /><br />When people asked my kids what their mom did for a living they said, 'She plays on the computer and talks on the phone a lot. Mostly, she talks." Now they just say, "She does a lot of things for a living." This must be why kids never say, "I want to be a university administrator when I grow up."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10488623970838627044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626155282643563585.post-43176384928195018132013-05-17T10:51:19.466-04:002013-05-17T10:51:19.466-04:00That's a long walk to school. Builds hardy kid...That's a long walk to school. Builds hardy kids.<br /><br />I note you were good kids and did not cut through the cemetery. I used to walk through a cemetery to get to school, for a year or two.<br />There's been a fence put up since then to stop that.<br /><br />Did you ever wear a plastic bag between your shoe and your boot to help get the boot off?<br />The under-boot plastic bag was a staple of my youth. Worked great -- almost too well.<br /><br />Are the kids old enough that they can start coming inside the room to see how the adults work? Maybe that would be educational.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com