Lauren Kerstein suggested brainstorming using your childhood memories. Like she did in her post for StoryStorm, I am just going to list some of my childhood memories.
- Finding brand new shoes in the trash can
- My dad bringing home a puppy abandoned at a gas station
- falling off a rocking horse and hitting my head
- handing my newborn baby brother my bottle (Okay, I don’t remember that. It was one of my mother’s favorite stories.)
- falling down the stairs at church (two whole floors of them!)
- going to buy ice cream and getting SIX scoops
- burying a potato to get rid of my warts
- being attacked by One Bad Cat
- learning to sing “The Old Mother Duck”
- learning a song in Italian
- Learning “You Are My Sunshine”
- riding home on a train and having put my baby doll in a seat we had not paid for–a young man with a guitar ended up sitting next to me and was quite polite and sweet
- getting a red headed doll as tall as I was from our next door neighbors
- receiving a box of caramels from my grandmother for Christmas
- going swimming in Oak Creek Canyon
- going swimming in the irrigation ditches
I just discovered a super story idea writing these down.