then

then

puttering with putt-putts

The first time I saw the Wilson’s they came bounding down my road like two excited frogs on a rainy day. I was probably eight years old at the time and very interested in changes to our neighborhood where two out of every three houses were occupied by geriatric

then

christmas city

It was the summer before my senior year of high school when I worked at a local Christmas superstore in Northern New Jersey. Out on the highway somewhere past Red Lobster and before the turnoff to the mall it occupied a large square building. During the off-season they referred to