What do kids know about ‘boyfriends’ in elementary school? I can tell you, I didn’t know a thing and yet somehow I found myself with my first boyfriend in the 4th grade. Year: 1993-94 School: Lockhart Elementary School My First…
Having to go to all these graduations this month, has made me think about my own days of graduating. I remember clearly the first time that I ever graduated from school. NO, ‘graduating’ from preschool and kindergarten does not count!!…
Year: Sometime in the 90s Place: Lockhart Elementary School You knew the drill. You heard the first sounds over the loud speaker and knew exactly what to do. It was either a crawl under the desk or stop, drop, and…
It’s fitting that this blog post of one of my writing influences came out in February – aka Black History Month. It’s no question that I was influenced by great black poets and authors in my young life. I have…
One thing I loved about my old elementary school was our huge schoolyard playing field. If you got to school early enough in the morning, you could run up and down on the fields with your friends before class and…
