Tag: childhood
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Revisiting Childhood: The Lion King
Tonight I went to see the Lion King in 3D and I have to admit that I got chills when the sun first popped into view and the music started. It’s a great piece of music for one, but also because it was fun to see something that I remember seeing in theaters. In fact,…
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Candy Corn Confessional
There are a lot of things from childhood (and even from early adulthood) about which I feel a certain nostalgia. These things range from the $.05 candies (always “tutti frutti”) at the corner store in Edisto when I was 6 to being in Chapel Hill for Halloween during college. In both of these cases, as…
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My life in movies
You can learn a lot about a person from the movies on their shelf. For now let’s take a little trip into the movie shelf in my head. Films That Remind Me of Childhood: Back to the Future is still the first movie I can remember seeing in theaters. My “first movie” was Follow That…
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Twelve Trivial Traits
I have been challenged to come up with a list of a dozen things that you may not know about me and post them here. This is difficult for me as half of my readers are probably related to me… but I’m going to try. So here you have twelve mostly useless things to know.…
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Memories of Being Nine.
This weekend I went to a Spongebob themed birthday party for a girl turning nine. It took me longer than I thought it would for me to pick out a gift for her, because nine is a difficult age. At nine, kids are too told for “little kid” toys, but too young for “pre-teen” things…
Joanna Volavka 