Category: Childhood

• The Empty Bedroom

  This was once my bedroom. There was a time when this room was packed full of the stuff of life… From a crib made in the mid-1940’s, I would look out at the flowered wallpaper.  Maybe a mobile hung just out of my reach, and moved about when a breeze caught it from a partly…

  patrickjegan

  July 2, 2015

  Blogging, Childhood, Family, Holding onto the Past, Home, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, non-fiction, Real Personal History

  bedroom, boyhood, broken heart, childhood girlfriend, crib, fathers, growing up, memories, mothers, owego ny

• Finding Peter

  [Lenny is on the left. Peter is happy to be in Pennsylvania] It was here in the Adirondack Mountains that I walked up to the wall of a ranger cabin.  It was a far off December night, when my heart and body were young.  I had a flashlight in my shaking hand, and read by…

  patrickjegan

  June 30, 2015

  Blogging, Childhood, Friendship, Holding onto the Past, Memories, non-fiction, Real Personal History

  bike trips, coming of age, finding lost friends, high school, owego ny, PA, teenage years