Old neighborhoods

Kids don’t have these anymore

Sherwood

Barnesdale

Surrey

Nottingham

Greenwood

Buckingham

Doncaster

Before cable

Pre internet

Thousands of meals at each other’s houses

Living rooms children weren’t allowed to enter

Pool parties at the Joneses

Sally and I throwing barbies out the window

Tv and candy in the pit

CCD

Saturday mass at St. Linus

Swimming lessons

Gymnastics

Melissa threw up on Meri, Jenny threw up on Mom

Mike, Melissa, Kathy, Meri and I got chicken pox together

Mrs. Jones babysat the 3 of us when Mom worked …tried to get Melissa to eat foods she wouldn’t eat

Braided my hair

Poolside all day with the Joneses

Back to school shopping together

Soccer practices

Amy riding her bike into the Watsons’ car- the only mean old people in the neighborhood

The Dobermans

Rocky

Tough skins and swing sets

Riding our bikes home super fast at night to get home before the bats came out

Crushes and pigtails

Sleep overs and tree climbing

One of these families lost their matriarch this weekend.

Childhood ripped away.

Skinned knees

Barbecues

Hula hoops

Badminton

Wagon filled with caterpillars

Bloody noses

Kick the can and ding dong ditch

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The Kennedy path

Hot dogs with macaroni and cheese

The goldfish on their kitchen table

Tippy

The Weston car accident

Old neighborhoods sit in the marrow of our bones

Our safe place, our magical Sherwood Forest

Memories

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust