This is one of the many memories I have of growing up in a normal Catholic family in Ireland...
My childhood unfolded in the heart of Texas during the 1960s, a time when the world felt both vast...
In the early 1960s, life on our Scottish council estate was simple, and as children, we knew our place....
I grew up the oldest of four, with a sister two years younger and brothers five and eight years...
That summer, our family—Mother, Father, myself, my younger sister, and my two younger brothers—journeyed to Scotland to visit my...
I managed to convince my mother that I was too old for summer camp that year. With her new...
On a bright Easter morning, Mother presented us with splendid new coats. They were a matching pair, though my...
(gap: 2s) My childhood unfolded in Buffalo, New York, a city of snowdrifts and steel, where the wind off...
gap: 2s) Growing up in the mid 1970s in a Scottish council estate, discipline was woven into the fabric...
The air was thick with the scent of cut grass and the distant tang of the sea, and the...
I was born in the late 1970s, a time when the world seemed painted in muted hues and the...
In the days of my childhood, I was utterly enchanted by the radio dramas that filled the air each...
I wanted to tell you a little bit about my Mother’s use of the cane, but to understand it,...
In the heart of our Scottish neighbourhood, there resided a boy named Freddie. It was well understood among the...
When I was in my second year at senior school, the winter winds grew sharp and cold, and I...
(gap: 1s) This is the story of the most mortifying punishment I ever received—a memory etched in my mind,...
It was the early 1970s, a time when most parents were anything but liberal, and discipline was expected—sometimes demanded—by...
(gap: 2s) Growing up in the 1960s, discipline was woven into the very fabric of daily life—at home, at...
My brother Jeff and I are only 13 months apart and we were raised almost like twins. We had...
Spankings at my house were not rare and all of us – my younger sis and two younger brothers...