July 13, 2011

I don't really know what to write about tonight, so I guess I will start prewriting for my next essay on Places. I am trying hard to think of a list of places that I might want to write about, and that I can have enough of a connection to that will allow me to write for four to five pages. My own family is a bit scattered and disjointed right know, so there isn't a place where we go for family reunions. I can't recall a conversation with a friend that was deep enough and important enough to remember where it happened. I can't recall any particularly traumatic events, other than falling in a hole in the neighbor's yard when I was about six. It wasn't an extremely deep hole, but I remember being stuck and my parents having to help me get out. I also got a small cut on the back of my head and had to wear my hair in pigtails for a little while until it healed. I know my parents got married in a church in Chicago, and that they went to Niagra Falls on their honeymoon. I have never been there myself, but I certainly would like to visit it. The views I have seen on TV are truly amazing. We first moved to Springfield when I was 8, and the deal on the house we were supposed to move into fell through so we ended up staying at the KOA campground for a month until my parents found another house. The interesting thing about that, is that several years ago, we were in between houses, waiting on one to be ready and our lease was up on the other one, and it was summer, so me, my husband, our 2 boys and the dogs spent a month living at the same KOA campground, except we were in tents and when I was a kid we had a pop up camper. The kids loved it though, with going swimming every day, and fun activities like watermelon and ice cream every night. We had an electric site so we had TV, radio, coffee pot and all the luxuries of home. There are many historic sites I would love to go see, especially those related to the founding of this country. The more I learn about the history of the United States and its government, the more I want to see for myself where some of these historic acts took place. I am running out of places to think about and write about, so I guess I will call it a night. It's pretty late and my brain doesn't work so good when I'm really tired. Hopefully I will have more to think and write about tomorrow.