Bike Ride Down Memory Lane

Hello World!

I ran some errands on my bike this evening. While I was on my way home, I decided to ride past my elementary school and junior high school. I was taken aback by the flood of memories that hit me as I rounded the end of the junior high school (turned middle school) end of the building and came up on the back of the elementary school. There I was playing softball as a young girl...then I was running across the field because the boys were trying to steal my comb from my back pocket...there's the swing where Karen Baylor got hit in the face and had her two front teeth knocked out...I'm racing Eric Zigman and Jimmy Bevis across the playground...there's the three humped monkey bars that always made my heart race because I was afraid of falling off...my friends are pushing me on the swings...there I am again at the first field up to bat hearing the crowd yelling, "Show them where you live!" and I can hear the train in the distance...I can see the kids sitting on the wall hanging out during recess...the playground, the baseball fields - they are completely different now, but I can see them clearly as they once were. As I continue around the rest of the building, I can hear the cacophony of children crowding through the front doors, papers rustling, teachers shouting...it was all so vivid. I rode all the way home with a big smile on my face. Ahhhh...childhood....