I tell my stories in a non-linear manner. That means I won’t be speaking in a chronological direction from a beginning to a middle, and finally, to an end.
That is personally not how I think when I consider the element of time and events.
My perception is more complex.
Continue reading →Coal is a shiny black rock. I actually know it is magic because a piece of coal burns. A rock that burns! Bituminous coal is also called “soft coal” and it starts to burn much quicker than the other kind of coal. The other kind of coal is Anthracite, and that is usually called “the hard coal.”
Continue reading →One by one we unwrapped our gifts. I noticed I had one additional gift. An extra gift seemed strange because in our home gifts were something extraordinary. A steelworker’s family seldom had more than a couple of small gifts. Each one was a treasure to us.. We giggled and squirmed amid the wrappings we discarded the wrapping papers. We tore into the gifts. OH, Christmas morning is the most memorable time of a little child’s life!
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