Summer Days
I am still hurting, I am still mad. But there are other things in the world to look at, and you can still be trying to figure out what you can do while doing something else. Summer vacation is here for my daughter. She is now finished with junior high and is onto high school. It's also almost her 15th birthday. I think your kid's birthday by nature makes you reflect on what you were doing at their age. When I was 15, we could still go to Drive-In movies. The theatre (that would no longer be on the outskirts of the city) has long since blown up. The summer for us was spent bouncing from my house, to a friend's house, and then back again. It was an extended sleepover. Days were spent outside, avoiding parents and younger siblings. But hoping that maybe some older siblings with a car would take pity on us and take us somewhere fun, or buy us treats. When the stampede came around, we would go as many times as possible. We didn't think about much when on the grounds, othe...