Playing like a kid

This week Louise and I wrote about childhood pastimes.  I made a list.  I strongly urge you to do the same.

• Riding my bike
• Watching Gilligan's Island on summer afternoons
• Reading
• Climbing the foothills at the top of 4380 North
• Coloring
• Cutting out paper dolls
• Weaving hot pads on plastic looms with nylon loops
• Playing "orphans" with my neighbors
• Turning cartwheels on the front lawn
• Building dollhouses out of shoe boxes
• Having sleepovers and telling scary stories about Weeping Marys
• Tubing at Timp Haven in the winter
• Hanging out at the cemetery
• Daring boys to eat dirt or glue
• Sleeping outside in the backyard
• Watching for shooting stars and saying "another witch has died" whenever I saw one
• Swimming
• Playing dolls
• Roller-skating and skateboarding
• Walking and talking with friends
• Playing tetherball (gosh!)
• Playing football
• Playing hopscotch and jacks
• Reading Tales from the Crypt on my friend's front porch
• Swinging
• Singing into hairbrushes and pretending like my friends and I were the Monkees
• Going to matinees
• Getting dropped off at the Cottonwood Mall with friends because in those days Cottonwood Mall = Air-conditioned Babysitter