Month: February 2022

Life in the Hood

Going to MBS had one perk though. When we first moved in I wasn’t allowed across the street, not even across Allison Street which was overkill, it being no wider than two car widths and traffic being such that, should a car come down the street, all hands would turn out to ogle it. This […]

I Enter the System

About the time Howard Unruh took his Luger for a walk in Camden my mother took me to enroll in kindergarten at S. Weir Mitchell public school, which, per Wikipedia, is historic. S. Weir Mitchell was a physician, scientist, novelist, and poet. He lived before there was movies, TV, or Twitter so he had a […]