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A huge thank you to all my email subscribers! I hope my posts have brought a smile to your face and memories to your brain. Much as I’ve enjoyed this experience, I’ve decided it’s time to move on to other adventures. If you want to read any of my former articles, they are still available at www.carolsoldschool.com Your encouragement and kind comments have warmed my heart. It’s been a pleasure! Carol

I discovered roller skating and I was actually good at it! By the way, I define good as staying vertical most of the time and not breaking an ankle.

From previous columns, you know my mother juggled better than any circus performer. She cooked, cleaned, kept the books for the family business, did the taxes and was active in our church. I forgot to mention another of her titles: Resident Physician. That woman treated more scrapes than any emergency room doc. I still have scars on both knees, especially the one she had to pick cinders out of with tweezers before she could bandage it—a gift from my bike skid. I recently saw

Did you have a scrapbook as a kid? I certainly did and loved it. I had it crammed so full that it would hardly close.