During my 1970s kidhood when schools started after Labor Day as God intended, my mid-August birthday always meant summer was beginning to end. By then, the afternoon sun was at its hottest and most intense, the annual August dry spell began to toughen and dry spring’s tender greenery, and the street lights switched on earlier to [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘school’
14 September 2008
Summer’s denouement
Filed under Stories told
Tags: August, autumn, childhood, fall, Lancaster Drive, school, September, South Bend, summer
8 August 2007
Adventures to come
I watch 6News Good Morning Indiana while I get ready on work mornings. Weather guesser Paul Poteet has a sharp, fast wit, and I can usually use a laugh at 5:30 in the morning. (I would have killed for Paul’s wit when I did radio years ago.)
I think I’ve left more comments on Good Morning [...]
Filed under Stories told
Tags: children, Good Morning Indiana, Grace Trahan, kindergarten, Paul Poteet, school, school bus, WRTV





