I have a photograph

Directions: Go the town and the house where you grew up. Find the old photo albums. Open the one you never paid much attention to as a child. Glimpse the world as it looked when you were born. Marvel at familiar faces looking impossibly young. Resolve to take more pictures.

Memorial Day Weekend, 1982. Mama (age 26) and her younger brother.

Christmas 1982

January 1984. Me with my uncle and (future) aunt. They would marry later that year.

Summer 1984. The year my parents and I moved from Texas to Indiana.