Long before life’s momentous events were documented in photo albums, posted on social media, or even foisted upon unsuspecting dinner guests via Kodak slide carousels, they were embedded in charm bracelets. Most would agree that there is something irresistibly ‘charming’ about a charm bracelet. Some people love the jingle-jangle a charm bracelet makes when the […]
What are memories? Echoes from another time. Vistas to the past. Captured memories Faces staring back at me From scrapbook pages. Memories connect Who I was to who I am Without them I’m lost. Do memories die? No brain keeping them alive? Perhaps not say I. Maybe vibrations Sight unseen to […]
People sometimes tell me the heirlooms given to me hold no value over how my heart feels, but these things have memories—stories of where they’ve come from—that tug at my heart. They’re scattered about my home, adorning it as subtle nostalgic strings upon which travel the finest emotions of bygone days. Grammy’s cookie jar sits […]
I recently discovered two of my grandmother’s delicate China dessert plates and was suddenly filled with a rush of childhood memories of the weekends I spent at Grammy’s house. On Saturday mornings, she woke me extremely early—5:30 a.m., to be exact. “Time’s a wastin’,” she said, yanking the covers off me. I grumbled because, unlike […]
As I drive through my old neighborhood, I don’t just see the familiar cookie-cutter houses or the elementary school I went to with all my friends. I see a simpler, safer time. I see my childhood. I park my car in front of my childhood home and get out. I pause, for even now I […]
It gradually turned chilly between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Although Frosty the Snowman rarely visited our part of Texas, his pal, Jack Frost, surely did. He wafted his way through our drafty house, chased by welcome bursts of heat from the floor furnace—a metal floor grate that funneled heat from the living room to the rest […]
