Memoir excerpt (entire book – one year: 1960)

C 2006  Jim Blake There is a commotion in the side yard. My eight-year-old sister Regan rushes up the decayed front porch steps, bangs open the screen door and stands in the living room hollering: “Mommy, they’re holding Blinky upside down! The mean boys in the playhouse won’t leave!” “Jimmy! Come down here and tell [...]