We move to Tallmadge, Ohio where I would live until I went away to college.
Begin 1st grade at Chapel Hill Christian School, which was about a mile away from my house.
I meet Matt Luker, who would become one of my best friends. We still email now and then.
I have only tenuous memories of the time from 1979-1985. I will cover the highlights which I can recall in the next few posts.
My parents decided that I shouldn’t start first grade yet.
I went to kindergarten at Lake Ridge Academy. I remember snack time with graham crackers and juice. I remember a girl beating me up on the playground. I remember keeping my tennis shoes in a cubby hole. I remember gym class. I remember a lady coming to the playground with one of those “invisible dogs.” I remember lying at Show and Tell one time about having this cool hand-carved toy at home. I remember accidentally breaking a girl’s Easter Egg (the ornate kind with a little scene inside it). I remember drawing a picture of a bear and everyone commented that I was such a good artist.
I think my friend’s names were Andy and Joe. Andy and I always got into trouble. Joe was this really smart Asian kid.
I had a bed sheet with a design of the American Flag on it.
I remember really liking Batman and Shogun Warriors at this point in my life.
I remember watching the Star Wars Holiday Special. Somehow I associate that evening with my dad staying home with me while my mom had to go to the hospital after coughing up blood.
May dad took me to some kind of auto/technology show at this convention center. I had to pee really bad the whole time and ended up wetting my pants.
We lived at the end of a cul-de-sac on Marsh Place, somewhere in Ohio.
The kids across the street always made fun of my name.
I had a crush on Kim Monroe, the girl next door who was way older than I was.
My two friends Tommy and Todd lived at the end of the street. Tommy got in trouble one day for saying “Fock.”
I started kindergarten at Bella Vista Nursery School.
We get our Welsh Corgi, “Primo.” I seem to remember his pedigree name being “Symphony von Thadden.”
I remember being at school in Mexico. On the play ground, some of my friends said “Hey, let’s play Star Wars.” I asked, “What’s that?”
I officially started pre-school at Bella Vista Nursery School.
About a year after living in the mansion, we moved and rented another house at Bosques de Bolognia 3-Lote-15, Estado de Mexico.
We move to Mexico where my dad got a job with Sherwin-Williams. We stayed in an apartment for several months before renting a house near the Hacienda Golf Club, outside of Mexico City. It was the mansion of a rich Mexican, so I guess we were kind of mansion-sitting.
Santa Claus comes to visit us at my house and I completely freak out. I bawl like a frightened child, which I was.