Sewing Basket

One birthday, when I was quite young, my mom surprised me with a sewing basket- complete with thread, pins and needles, scissors, and a pincushion that looked like a tomato. It felt as if heaven had opened and all of a sudden, I was considered a responsible citizen of the world.

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Nancy Remkus
Roller Skates

Do you remember the clip-on roller skates that fastened to the bottom of your shoes and tightened with a key? We skated about our musty old cinderblock basement with the ease of master skaters, the old metal wheels scraping along the concrete, catching one of the lally-columns in the crook of our elbows and spinning like Dorothy Hamill on the ice.

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Nancy Remkus