Traffic patterns will be adjusting to school needs soon. Must be strong reasons for building the two new elementary schools is such poorly connected locations—no walking and no bicycling either. Made me think of some of life’s lessons my brothers and sisters and I learned walking to and from school in the 1940s and 1950s.

I find myself feeling sorry for all the kids not able to walk to their neighborhood school.

Once instead of “kick the can” we played kick the lunchbox all the way home. We used mine. It was metal and had a glass-lined thermos. Mom heard us and the rattle coming and told me she had a difficult time believing I could be so stupid.

We gave Mom many things to deal with. One day, John and I found a metal box with what appeared to be rolled up balloons neatly packed inside.

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