childhood Archive

  • Santa and I

    The year I turned four or five, we drove to my grandparents in central Wisconsin for Christmas.   Actually, we did this for most years of my early childhood- until I was 8 or so and we moved to Florida.   Making the 1100 mile […]

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  • Natural Coastline Ecosystems

    This is a photo I took on a short (half a day) trip to the beach over Spring Break.   Behind me is the Atlantic Ocean.   I was in Florida visiting my parents and we took a detour home via Hanna Park in Atlantic […]

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  • The Spirit of the Beehive

    Who could ever draw the lines that would separate the material world and the worlds of the imagination? For children, these worlds flow into each other very easily: a merging that is the subject of the Spanish-language film El espíritu de la colmena (1973). Victor […]

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