Thanks to @mariannewest for yet another freewrite prompt! image credit Many years ago my mother read a book about the four basic temperaments. I was just a teenager, but I think I read the book too, at

First, I had to look up that word and make sure I knew what it meant! Looking back on my life, I would pinpoint two time periods as my halcyon days. The first period was the summers when I was about 8-10

One day I am going to write a book about my mother. I don't know if anyone will want to read it. I am sure no lessons would be learned and nothing would be gained from it. If anything, it might help me

It was a somewhat sunny day in the streets of South Auckland, again none of us had cigarettes and for breakfast was leftover chicken backs the Mormon Missionaries had brought over for us the day before.