Tag: boyhood

• A Farewell Letter To Jimmy

  Hey, Jimmy…I can’t bring myself to call you James.  For most of my life you’ve been Jimmy, so there it is.  Mariam and I were in Burlington just this past weekend.  As I wandered up and down Church Street I kept wondering where the restaurant was that we met for the first time in over…

  patrickjegan

  November 20, 2016

  Blogging, Childhood, Friendship, History, Holding onto the Past, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, Real Personal History

  420 Front St., boyhood, Brick Pond Owego NY, growing up, owego ny

• 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