16 comments


  • Peggy

    I can just imagine you and your sister rambling down the road in the “green hornet”! A sight to behold!🤪

    February 21, 2022
    • Write in Community

      Yep, it was a lot of fun! And I finally learned how to recognize people in cars!

      February 22, 2022
  • Linda Shriner

    I so enjoyed your story about transition. Transitions come in many ways, some with ease and some as a jolt into our lives. I’d not thought about looking back and taking a good look at transitions in my life. Thank you for sending.

    February 22, 2022
    • Write in Community

      Transitions sometimes involve hard decisions, hard choices. When we can use our most creative responses, the challenges become easier.

      February 22, 2022
  • Big Sister Karen

    Becky and I sure had fun in that old Chevy. I taught her how to recognize and wave at our fellow classmates as we drove down the main drag before school started. It was a social skill she was lacking at the time. She was a quick learner!!

    February 22, 2022
    • Write in Community

      Big Sister, you helped me see with wide-open eyes! My first!

      February 22, 2022
  • Mara

    That’s beautiful. I wanted to hear more. It’s the beginnings of a book. Maybe next time around. I have a prompt….eggs!

    February 22, 2022
    • Write in Community

      Eggs, yes, EGG-cellent! Thanks for the creative idea, Mara! I’m already thinking about the next story.

      February 22, 2022
  • Mike Stinson

    Yes, I had my own “54 Chevy” transitional phase, driving down the road, map thrown in a campfire, open to adventure. Love the Langston Hughes poem! If I wrote a chapter for every transition, I would have one titanic tome!

    February 22, 2022
    • Write in Community

      I bet you were creative way back then, too. Innovative, adaptable and, yes, looking for the next adventure.

      February 22, 2022
  • Barb

    Becky… your writing is so easy to read. You are such a wordsmith giving the reader a personal story to imagine life at a different time and how it affects our own thinking of childhood. I bet you were the most fun and your sister was so sweet to include you! Thanks for a good read! Barb

    February 23, 2022
    • Write in Community

      Thank you, Barb, for your kind comments. In looking back over the years, I want to acknowledge and celebrate the folks who made a difference in my life. My sister is one of them. She held my hand as I vaulted, faltering at times, into adolescence.

      February 23, 2022
  • Big Sis Karen

    I re-read your blog Becky and realized what we went through does have a word assigned to it. When I think of transitions, I generally think of changing jobs, houses or marital status. What you and I did was invent “a bit of fun” in a small, sleepy town, (without malls,) that was obsessed with hog reports and the price of corn. Little did I know that we were partners on a monumental journey to adulthood. I’m glad I didn’t know at the time, it would have scared me to death!

    February 23, 2022
    • Write in Community

      Well said! Thanks, Karen, for being in the driver’s seat and giving me ride after ride. It has been quite a journey.

      February 23, 2022
  • Monica A Breed

    I love this story, Mom. I can see you and Karen tearing around town in the Green Hornet!

    March 27, 2022
    • Write in Community

      The Green Hornet lifted me out of childhood and shot me like a rocket into adolescence. My coming-of-age experience had wheels!

      March 28, 2022

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