Tag
1988
3 entries
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Friday, January 1, 1988 · Don Krumpos
Something Good to Reach For
One of my special memories is movie night. Usually it was Sunday, and usually it was the Disney family movie hour. That phrase alone carries a whole atmosphere for me now — the television glowing in the living room, the…
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Friday, January 1, 1988 · Don Krumpos
What Others Threw Away
The first time I understood my father was a kind of lumberjack, I was carrying his supper out to a stand of trees at the edge of a Royal Scot subdivision. He was up in one of the trees with…
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Tuesday, January 1, 1991 · Don Krumpos
The Good Money
Around my freshman year of high school, my father finally moved to day shift. I do not remember the exact date. It may be in my mother's journal somewhere. What I remember is not the calendar but the feeling of…