Eva Marie Everson I opened my mailbox the other day to find Amazon’s Holiday Kids Gift Book, which boasts 100 colorful pages featuring over 600 toys and gifts. This tiny catalogue reminded me of a very special “wish book” that arrived in our home every year . . . and right on time. I don’t […]
Packing 101
Eva Marie Everson My mother “let me” pack my own clothes. Wait. Before I go further, you need some context. In the summer of my 10th year, I was preparing to go to Camp Low, the Girl Scout camp located on Rose Dhu Island off the coast of Savannah. Recently, in an act of defiance, […]
The Four Teenagers; A Childhood Memory
Eva Marie Everson There were four of them. Two girls and two boys. They were teenagers, my father told my mother over the phone, and he didn’t want the girls to have a record that would follow them into adulthood. It was okay, he said—not okay, but not as bad—if the boys had […]