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Hold The Handrail, Hannah

Hannah had never experienced our spiral staircase before, so Kathee was careful to teach her about the dangers of falling down the stair if she didn’t hold the handrail. If we heard it once, we probably heard it a hundred times…”Hold the handrail, Hannah!” ...

Neither Kathee nor I knew how it happened, but she jumped up from the chair in the living room, hurried over to the stairs and fell about half-way down the spiral…bumping on her fanny all the way. Then her knee hit the upright and slid through the space. She doesn't have a clue how she did it and I was ahead of her near the bottom when it happened so I didn’t see the fall. I only heard it. Bangety, bump, bump, bang!

Practice what you preach! Hold The Handrail, Hannah, written by my mother Thelly, details my clumsy fall down her sprial carecase. Have you written your life story?

Casting Out Nines

To say that Arithmetic was not my long shot would be an understatement. Whether I missed so many classes due to Bronchitis in childhood or later Menstrual horrors, or whether “I was behind the door when the brains were passed out” would be debatable.

I do remember that ‘Casting Out Nines’ was taught in grammar school, and I learned it before I moved to Pacific Beach, so I’d say I was in fourth or fifth grade...which would make it about 1937 or 1938.

Calculators, Abacus ... anyone?Casting Out Nines, Circa 1938, is great story written by Thelly, detailing another way to check your math.

Barefootin

As a child growing up in San Diego, I fondly recall the barefoot'in days of summer. I seldom wore shoes and often played all day long in my neighborhood in Pacific Beach, while barefoot'in.

Life Story Writing Network:
Barefootin is a witty story written about the freedom of barefootin days in the summertime in Phoenix, AZ and the dangers thereof.

The Giant Dipper at Mission Beach in San Diego, CA

On weekends and throughout the summers I spent lots of time and money down at Belmont Park at Mission Beach, in San Diego, CA. The seaside amusement park was not within a reasonable walking distance from my house in Pacific Beach, so I always had to save back a dime to ride the bus home.

Belmont Park's attraction to me was the public indoor Olympic sized swimming pool called, "The Plunge", a midway with street vendors peddling their games and prizes, a House of Mirrors, and a massive roller coaster called, the "Giant Dipper." The Giant Dipper was undeniably the park's star attraction.

The Giant Dipper at Mission Beach in San Diego, CA, is a summer story written about childhood memories of Belmont Park with a moral twist and lessons learned.