Jules in the City Blog

Writing about a memory

Recently I saw a post calling for submissions on Childhood Memories. Instantly I recalled the vision of my little brother heaving his dirty clothes of my bed, aimed at me, as part of our game "Clothes War".  The urge to write it into a story was strong - so I followed my urge and wrote it out while on a plane.

My brother is currently in Iraq as a Medic with the Army. He is very dear to me, and I have plenty of fond (and not-so-fond) memories of growing up with him. In an attempt to amuse myself, feed my writing urge, and share with him some of my best memories, I have decided to compose a series of essays about these memories.  My eventual hope is I'll publish them, but in the meantime, I think the compilation will make a fantastic gift to my parents for next year's anniversary.

If I'm really lucky, he will have time to write some of his own.

He's been over there 2 weeks and I already miss the booger!