Category Archives: Childhood

Pen Pals

When I was seven years old, my family went on vacation to a farm in Pennsylvania. While there, I met a girl named Rebecca, though the farm was not named Sunnybrook. She had long brown hair, and humored me by … Continue reading

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5 Reasons to Watch “Parenthood”

In my as per usz timely fashion, I want to finish the blog I wrote a year ago! You see the other current show I (was/am) watching, that has my heart the most, is one that I recently caught up … Continue reading

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Come, Come, Grace and Daddy Warbucks! Find Us In the Laundry Truck!

As I’ve reposted my Myspace blogs here on WordPress, I skipped over this one countless times. I never thought I’d have a reason to repost it. But thanks to my Myspace friends on Facebook, especially Donovan, I now know of … Continue reading

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Thank You Josh & Joss (A Buffy Blog)

For my birthday, I received the gift I’d been wanting the most for so long, but couldn’t justify purchasing, given my financial situation: The entire series collection of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” ZOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Because now, within my eyesight, I have … Continue reading

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Oh My God, It’s A Mirage

Steeple guide me to my heart and home The sun is out and up and down again ~ Smashing Pumpkins The place is expanding, this place I’ve seen so many times before, alone, filling up with people from my entire … Continue reading

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Breaking Butterflies

And what I know is that everything I touch just turns to dust … ~ Craig Manning When I was in second grade, I was pretty prone to misbehavior. One evening, my mother caught me trying to forge her signature … Continue reading

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Things I Used to Get from the Ice Cream Man

Summertime is here, and I know I’m not alone — I miss being a kid in the summer! No school, no work, just an endless stretch of possibility. And nothing was better summer fuel than the ice cream man. Remember … Continue reading

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The Ballad of Pecan

It was a Spring day in 1996. I was in my bedroom on the third floor of my Baldwin family home, with two new kittens that were now my babies. One orange and white, one tabby/stray that earned him the … Continue reading

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5 Movies That Creeped Me Out As a Kid

There were cinematic experiences growing up that simply terrified me like “Salem’s Lot,” or traumatized me via ghouls and angry houses, like “The Amityville Horror” and that one film with the moving-eye George Washington portrait. Brrr. There were movies that … Continue reading

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