Posts Tagged ‘technique’
Where Are You?: Questions for Storytellers
When I was a boy in the little town of Sumner, Illinois, many families had backyard vegetable gardens. I’m talking about the sixties and seventies, times that weren’t too distant from the Great Depression and World War II, those times of subsistence and victory gardens. My own father was sixteen when the stock market crashed…
Read MorePracticing the Techniques of Our Craft
For some reason, I’m thinking today about how I learned to drive. When I was around twelve years old, my father started letting me steer his Oldsmobile on the gravel roads near our farm in Lukin Township. I’d scoot close to him on the bench seat and steer while he operated the gas and, if…
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