Living in Country School Days
What a different time from then to now39 total reviews
Comment from Brenda Strauser
Hi Debi. I really enjoyed reading your poem. I agree with you about growing up then. I want to have those days back too. I am so tired of all the political things. Your story was well written and flowed well. I also like your picture. Well done
reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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Hi Debi. I really enjoyed reading your poem. I agree with you about growing up then. I want to have those days back too. I am so tired of all the political things. Your story was well written and flowed well. I also like your picture. Well done
Comment Written 24-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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Hi Brenda, I thank you so very much. This is so incredibly sweet of you to say such kind things about the story. I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. Thank you again, my very dear friend. Love, Debi
Comment from Sally Law
I so enjoyed your true story of the good ol' days. Carter School sounds really rustic but very well run. Imagine that many kids in one room! It probably felt like a big family. Mine was similar in many aspects. My elementary school was much like the ones seen in the movies, Hooziers and Mr. Holland's Opus, with single classrooms for each grade. I remember it being strict and we were taught respect for self, others, veterans, and our country and flag early on. I feel sorry for this generation, I really do. Look what we've become and what we've lost! Thank you for sharing, my friend.
A Tour de Force back to a simpler time!
Sending you my best today as always, and love and blessings across the miles.
BBB XOs!
reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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I so enjoyed your true story of the good ol' days. Carter School sounds really rustic but very well run. Imagine that many kids in one room! It probably felt like a big family. Mine was similar in many aspects. My elementary school was much like the ones seen in the movies, Hooziers and Mr. Holland's Opus, with single classrooms for each grade. I remember it being strict and we were taught respect for self, others, veterans, and our country and flag early on. I feel sorry for this generation, I really do. Look what we've become and what we've lost! Thank you for sharing, my friend.
A Tour de Force back to a simpler time!
Sending you my best today as always, and love and blessings across the miles.
BBB XOs!
Comment Written 24-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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Hey Sally, you are the biggest Sweetheart ever and I thank you so very much. You couldn't find that kind of surrounding in a country school, because it had to be more relaxed and carefree for the system to work.
However when we got to 7th grade, that was a different story. Then we were the kids who had to be on our best behavior. Remember when I wrote about my friends and me always being so phony for us pretending to be something we weren't,
This is so incredibly sweet of you to say such kind words plus honor me with a six for this. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, my very dear friend.
Love, Debi
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I really enjoyed reading this and learned so much about you. Jack wanted to know if you caught or handled any snakes with your brothers. He and his three brothers and two sisters had pet snakes and a bow constrictor! Can you even believe that? I scream just him about it! Love ya!
Sal Xos
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Tell Jack, to this day everyone, including all the guys (Glen, Jason and all the grandsons) won't even touch a snake. And I just pick them up and throw them out of the way. LOL..
That is cool about Jack.
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I knew you were tough, DPM! I'll tell him! Blessings back yo ya in Snake Land! I think they're brumating right now in the burst of cold and snow you're having. They'll be back. Xoxo
Comment from Pam Lonsdale
Something else we had in common! I lived with my mother after my parents divorced, and every year I began school in a different town and building. It was impossible to make friends.
move the period after "taking down the American flag daily to after the end of your parentheses.
Haha! We never stuffed our straws with anything, but we did hold them like cigarettes because that made us feel grown-up:-)
Perhaps you were on your iPad - the line that begins "Looking back," has nothing after it, then picks up with "I remembered it tasted terrible," on the next like. I would also add a period after "I only tried it once"
This is much like the life and experiences of so many of us of a certain age. Here's the kicker though, my daughter (age 33) already says, "Those were the good ole days!"
Thanks for sharing your memories with us, Debi. They were "good ole days" for us - and innocence was spared back then.
Hope you're having a super weekend, Sis:-)
xo
Pam
reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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Something else we had in common! I lived with my mother after my parents divorced, and every year I began school in a different town and building. It was impossible to make friends.
move the period after "taking down the American flag daily to after the end of your parentheses.
Haha! We never stuffed our straws with anything, but we did hold them like cigarettes because that made us feel grown-up:-)
Perhaps you were on your iPad - the line that begins "Looking back," has nothing after it, then picks up with "I remembered it tasted terrible," on the next like. I would also add a period after "I only tried it once"
This is much like the life and experiences of so many of us of a certain age. Here's the kicker though, my daughter (age 33) already says, "Those were the good ole days!"
Thanks for sharing your memories with us, Debi. They were "good ole days" for us - and innocence was spared back then.
Hope you're having a super weekend, Sis:-)
xo
Pam
Comment Written 24-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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Hahahaha!! You caught me doing something I should never do. I was editing in the middle of the night on my floating iPad and I kept falling asleep while doing it. Just like I shouldn't cut my own hair, I should not be doing that either.
I know I kept finding things I didn't like about it later after I released but then I would change something while only have it promoted and it would save without me proofreading and that is not good.
And tell your daughter she can't say that until she is our age at least. We don't want to turn her into an old lady before her time.
Thanks again, dearest twin sis~~~ and we will be over to see you soon.
Love, Debi
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I thought you were probably doing this in the middle of the night when you were tired. Get some sleep, sis!
Comment from giraffmang
Hi there,
i enjoyed this piece. A bit of nostalgia never hurt anyone... maybe!
My daughter went to a small country primary school with a total of 60 kids in the whole school. Now she struggles going to secondary school when there's that many in her year!
Times have certainly changed and probably not for the better.
The pledge of allegiance thing I find a bit puzzling. When it happened in Communist countries it was called indoctrination, I don't see the difference being made to do it. Same thing as touching the ground or actually burning the flag. It's just a bit of material.
Looking back,
I remembered it tasted terrible, and I am sure I only tried it once
.. - unintentional line break here and delete one of the periods at the very end.
All the best
G
reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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Hi there,
i enjoyed this piece. A bit of nostalgia never hurt anyone... maybe!
My daughter went to a small country primary school with a total of 60 kids in the whole school. Now she struggles going to secondary school when there's that many in her year!
Times have certainly changed and probably not for the better.
The pledge of allegiance thing I find a bit puzzling. When it happened in Communist countries it was called indoctrination, I don't see the difference being made to do it. Same thing as touching the ground or actually burning the flag. It's just a bit of material.
Looking back,
I remembered it tasted terrible, and I am sure I only tried it once
.. - unintentional line break here and delete one of the periods at the very end.
All the best
G
Comment Written 24-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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Thanks so much for the typo help, g-mang. I kept falling asleep during my edits so I did miss a bunch. I always appreciate the feedback.
Y'know I can relate to your daughter because when we got into seventh grade, we had to go to public school. Everything about it was different, from dress code to kids to schedule change. So I had a hard time adjusting too.
I guess pledging allegiance to something that is wholesome and good is different than when it's wrong and evil.
As far as the flag, I understood the material to be symbolism of what the flag stood for so that might have been why they said that about burning it. Heck I was in grade school. LOL. I was just relating what I remembered. Haha.
Thanks for your very kind comments, my friend. Love, Debi
Comment from Marilyn Hamilton
This was so much fun to read. I thought I was from a small town and school but wow you outdid me by a mile. The times were so different and as much as some things have improved, they can never improve on the simplicity and the experiences you got to have in those simpler times. I feel bad that kids today will never know
. Thanks for sharing. So nostalgic and sweet.
reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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This was so much fun to read. I thought I was from a small town and school but wow you outdid me by a mile. The times were so different and as much as some things have improved, they can never improve on the simplicity and the experiences you got to have in those simpler times. I feel bad that kids today will never know
. Thanks for sharing. So nostalgic and sweet.
Comment Written 24-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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Marilyn, I thank you so very much. This is so incredibly sweet of you to say such kind things. I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. I appreciate you so very much. Thank you again, my very dear friend. Love, Debi
Comment from Wendy G
Much of this story resonated, as we moved a lot during my childhood. We also pledged allegiance, with " I honour my God, I serve my Queen, I salute my flag". We never had a fireplace of course in our schools - far too hot. We tried to keep cool. Great story, well written. Wendy
reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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Much of this story resonated, as we moved a lot during my childhood. We also pledged allegiance, with " I honour my God, I serve my Queen, I salute my flag". We never had a fireplace of course in our schools - far too hot. We tried to keep cool. Great story, well written. Wendy
Comment Written 24-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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Wendy, I appreciate your kind comments regarding my country school days story. I love that even across the pond, we all have much in common with our friends. About the fireplace, Helen said the same thing, as she was in Honolulu. LOL.. Right now, after we haven't' had our normal winter here, we are getting our first snow. We are in a blizzard. We are supposed to get 3-4 FEET, not inches of SNOW. This is supposed to be Spring. Oh well, God knows what He is doing.
Anyway yes, that was a simpler time. We still are so very blessed. Thanks again, Wendy, my dear friend! Love, Debi
Comment from Heidixoxo
Hello,
What an amazing story!! It's so true that those were the good ol' days. It's crazy how times have most definitely changed. We used to stay outside, use our imagination and when the street lights came on it was time to go home. Thank you for some great memories my friend. Best of luck
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reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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Hello,
What an amazing story!! It's so true that those were the good ol' days. It's crazy how times have most definitely changed. We used to stay outside, use our imagination and when the street lights came on it was time to go home. Thank you for some great memories my friend. Best of luck
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Comment Written 24-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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Heidi, I thank you so very much. This is so incredibly sweet of you to say such kind things. I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. I appreciate you so very much. Thank you again, my very dear friend. Love, Debi
Comment from royowen
Oh yes, the good ol' days, and now we're the generation that's uttering them, but yes, there was some freedom, I was allowed out a friend's places, there was no sense of danger in those days, but that has certainly, large classes was another thing too, but well behaved. Blessings Roy
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reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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Oh yes, the good ol' days, and now we're the generation that's uttering them, but yes, there was some freedom, I was allowed out a friend's places, there was no sense of danger in those days, but that has certainly, large classes was another thing too, but well behaved. Blessings Roy
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Comment Written 24-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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Roy, I thank you so very much. This is so incredibly sweet of you to say such kind things. I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. I appreciate you so very much. Thank you again, my very dear friend. Love, Debi
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Bless you
Comment from jmdg1954
I'm glad you posted this today, cuz my sixes are reborn for the week.
Yup, the good old days. We boys had a Dr come into school and checked our... you know... the two-fers down below the waist. That certainly wouldn't fly today! Cough cough...
My favorite class chore was cleaning the board erasers. Oh yeah, lots of white powder all over...
We spoke about this the other wee how to this day we can ding at least the first verse to so many patriotic songs which are no longer taught (I'm pretty sure).
We were driving home tonight through Fort Monmouth and Old Glory was blowing straight out in the wind. It gave me goosebumps!
One of my regrets in life is I never served in the military. Does that seem odd?
Let me go. I'm rambling like an old goat!
I loved your post. Maybe we should devise one of those multi chapter books where anyone can post, call it "The Good Old Days".
See I kept rambling. Good night and God bless.
John
reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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I'm glad you posted this today, cuz my sixes are reborn for the week.
Yup, the good old days. We boys had a Dr come into school and checked our... you know... the two-fers down below the waist. That certainly wouldn't fly today! Cough cough...
My favorite class chore was cleaning the board erasers. Oh yeah, lots of white powder all over...
We spoke about this the other wee how to this day we can ding at least the first verse to so many patriotic songs which are no longer taught (I'm pretty sure).
We were driving home tonight through Fort Monmouth and Old Glory was blowing straight out in the wind. It gave me goosebumps!
One of my regrets in life is I never served in the military. Does that seem odd?
Let me go. I'm rambling like an old goat!
I loved your post. Maybe we should devise one of those multi chapter books where anyone can post, call it "The Good Old Days".
See I kept rambling. Good night and God bless.
John
Comment Written 24-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 24-Mar-2024
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John, I thank you so very much. This is so incredibly sweet of you to say such kind things. I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. I appreciate you so very much. And thanks for the awesome six stars too.
Thank you again, my very dear friend & bro. Love, Debi
