Comments on: The House Where I Grew Up https://ronrowland.com/the-house-where-i-grew-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-house-where-i-grew-up Mon, 08 Jul 2024 09:20:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Is This Heaven? – No, it’s Iowa - Navigating This Thing We Call Life https://ronrowland.com/the-house-where-i-grew-up/#comment-1303 Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:36:58 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=3196#comment-1303 […] Special Thanks: A special thanks goes out to my dad, who bought me my first Wilson glove, some neatsfoot oil to soften the leather, and played catch with me in the front yard of The House Where I Grew Up. […]

]]> By: sdtp33 https://ronrowland.com/the-house-where-i-grew-up/#comment-1302 Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:40:32 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=3196#comment-1302 Fond memories, Ron! Beautifully written!

]]> By: msjadeli https://ronrowland.com/the-house-where-i-grew-up/#comment-1301 Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:11:58 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=3196#comment-1301 In reply to Ron Rowland.

ha ha! As long as it happened. Ah cool on the location.

]]> By: Ron Rowland https://ronrowland.com/the-house-where-i-grew-up/#comment-1300 Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:21:30 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=3196#comment-1300 In reply to sean@bogie.

Yes, I was once young and stupid.

]]> By: sean@bogie https://ronrowland.com/the-house-where-i-grew-up/#comment-1299 Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:02:57 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=3196#comment-1299 Lovely Ron. All too often we don’t recognise love at the time.

]]> By: Ron Rowland https://ronrowland.com/the-house-where-i-grew-up/#comment-1297 Thu, 12 Aug 2021 09:24:25 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=3196#comment-1297 In reply to Beverly Crawford.

Yes, the lesson here is to be nice to the people you meet in elementary school, because you never know…

]]> By: Ron Rowland https://ronrowland.com/the-house-where-i-grew-up/#comment-1296 Thu, 12 Aug 2021 09:19:56 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=3196#comment-1296 In reply to msjadeli.

I like to say she chased me off in grade school, and told me to come back when I grew up. So, 45 years later, I tried again.

Not Chicago, but on the same parallel. Hampton Park is a small subdivision within the neighborhood known as DeVeaux in west Toledo, Ohio, just a mile or two south of the Michigan border.

]]> By: msjadeli https://ronrowland.com/the-house-where-i-grew-up/#comment-1292 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 19:33:01 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=3196#comment-1292 I’m awestruck you ended up marrying your childhood sweetheart 45 years later. Some things ARE meant to be. I’m so happy you found each other again. Looks like a nice house to grow up in. Is that a burb of Chicago?

]]> By: Helen L Dehner https://ronrowland.com/the-house-where-i-grew-up/#comment-1291 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:37:47 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=3196#comment-1291 I could write volumes about our first ~~~ loved reading your story poem.

]]> By: abigfatcanofworms https://ronrowland.com/the-house-where-i-grew-up/#comment-1289 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 11:59:25 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=3196#comment-1289 I totally understand. The want to write about a house I knew and loved was strong in me too. I”m so glad you did. Write what’s in your heart and it comes out strong and intact and reverberating. This is a lovely piece of memoir.

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