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Step 1
About this time of the year my grade school teacher, Miss Hawthorne of Eureka, Kansas would start us making Valentine cards and red & white decorations for our class room to celebrate Valentine's Day that comes on February 14th. I still remember how she had us fold the red paper in half and then cut the heart shaped valentine. starting from the bottom tip and up around the curve and down to a center spot. What a surprise when we opened them and would have a perfect heart. Write about your childhood Valentine's memories.
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Step 2
Sweethearts - Doesn't that give you some thoughts to write about? Did you take your special girl to a valentine dance or something else very special? Do you remember how you were dressed or can you find a picture? Have you given someone a special gift for Valentine's Day? I gave my husband a son on February 14th sixty years ago. Did you give or receive flowers, candy or jewelry? Write about your grown-up Valentine's memories.
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Step 3
Did your parents or grandparents watch for the groundhog to see his shadow? Do you have memories of Abraham Lincoln birthday celebrations?
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Step 4
Ice stormSurvivial Memories! For good and bad, disasters, tragedies and weather play an important role in our lives and are some of our strongest memories. We can all probably recall a force of nature that made a lasting impression. Did you or a family member survive a great blizzard, tornado, flood, hurricane, dust storm, forest or prairie fire? How did you survive without power or water? What did you do to make things bearable? Can you recall any natural phenomenon that really made an impression (like a tornado driving pine straw through glass without breaking it)? Did anyone's job make them work in nature's worst weather? What human strengths or frailties were revealed?
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Step 5
What other brushes with death have you survived to tell about?
Comments
Melanierose said
on 9/15/2008 Wonderful article!