So we come to the end of the October Memoir and Backstory Blog Challenge. Thanks to Jane Ann McLachlan for proposing this challenge that has taken me places in memory where I would never have gone otherwise. At times I believed I'd have nothing to write, but it seems memory begets memory. The end of the … Continue reading Age Twenty-five: The Turning Point
October Challenge
At Nineteen: Already a Has-been?
I have news: the Sophomore Slump isn't a myth. I know. I lived it. After a pretty exciting first year of college, at the start of my sophomore year, I hit the slide. Oh, I was going out some, but there wasn't anybody special. Generally, life was good. I liked my classes, and I wasn't … Continue reading At Nineteen: Already a Has-been?
Eighteen: The Frosh Year
Scared to Death! And so the girl went off to college! I'd been given a terrific scholarship, but I figured I was woefully unprepared for college courses, coming out of my small high school. For the first time in my life, I had to study hard. The English and lit courses, though, I adored. A professor … Continue reading Eighteen: The Frosh Year