Childhood stories

As the eldest of three boys in a single parent family, the pressure to pretend everything was okay was unbelievable....

I like to say that misbehavior at school was the result of being bored in class because I was too smart for what I was being taught. Let’s not dwell on this aspect of the story....

In the 50's school days were pretty hard. We were not asked to do something, we were told to do it or suffer the outcome of our disobedience....

As the police were raiding my neighbour’s garage recently, photographing and cataloguing the alleged stolen property, I found myself contemplating al...

I was a teenager and had been out very late the night before. I had to get up early in order to make it to my weekly piano lesson....

Told all my friends at school Michael Jackson lived at the bottom of my garden with bubbles in my shed....