Tag: childhood girlfriend

• 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

• The Brick Pond

    I grew up in a small town in upstate New York.  The name is Owego, which is derived from a Native American term that means “where the valley widens” or something close to that.  The village has everything that a typical small American town should have.  There is a beautiful cemetery on the hill…

  patrickjegan

  May 7, 2014

  Everyday Events, Holding onto the Past, Memories, Real Personal History

  bonfires, brick pond, childhood girlfriend, hometown, ice skating, owego ny, skating, waterman center, winter