- The principal who gave me a pink rosary
- The tiny library with picture books about saints
- The Halloween parades when we all dressed as saints
- Saddle shoes!
- Gray-blue uniforms with red and yellow plaid
- Christmas productions
- Weekly mass
- Reading aloud from Genesis at Kindergarten graduation
- I was one of two students deemed the "best readers"
- Art class taught by my mother
- Stubborn, misbehaved pupils
- Cubbies!
- Various depictions of the Virgin Mary throughout the premises
- My selection as an Indian in the Thanksgiving show, when I wanted to be a pilgrim
- Rosaries recited on the sidewalk on cold winter mornings
- Completed phonics exercises (blue pages)
- Silently lining up for mass
- Show and tell
- A pizza made from cardboard and construction paper
- Tearful responses to notes my mom left in my lunchbox
- I was an excessively sensitive child; I still cry at cute things, God only knows why
- Meaningless drawings made in the dirt with branches at recess
- Loneliness and shyness
feb 4 2011 ∞
feb 5 2014 +