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Sherlock Holmes Instead of Seuss

09 Monday Jul 2012

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I was a precocious child growing up.  My father, who had a doctorate in geology, would treat me like a little adult, a pupil-in-training.

I vaguely remember skimming over Goodnight Moon and Cat in the Hat, but what I really remember the most is Sherlock Holmes.

When other kids were talking about My Little Pony or GI Joes, I would listen for hours on end to my father reading the words of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  I was intoxicated by learning new words like “grotesque” or “purloined.”

Those are fond memories of childhood, stretched out on the lawn of the library with my father reading about the Hound of the Baskervilles or the evil Professor Moriarty.

My father would also read me the adventures of Tintin and Asterix (often in French, translating into english after each frame of the comic strip.) Such charmed summers, without a television, surviving the sweltering Wisconsin heat by taking literary adventures.

The Ice Cream Truck

08 Sunday Jul 2012

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Money can buy happiness.

Just ask a three-year old who has just heard the slightest tinklings

of the ice cream truck.

On the hottest of summer’s days,

all gather, sweltering, in the back yard–

slowly baking in the sun…

And at three o’clock,

every summer afternoon

a garbled version of

Yankee Doodle Dandy

sounds its clarion call

from the next neighborhood.

There is more clamoring and excitement

than for the Wells Fargo Wagon,

Christmas

and

Easter, all combined.

Because, in this moment,

for $2.95

you can feel the sweet coolness

of popsicle

or ice cream

slide down your gullet.

Holier than communion,

more durable than a pinky swear,

just pure happiness

on a summer afternoon.

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