1: A place I really like is my bed. I just feel like whenever I’m feeling sad or something like that I just go there. 2: I was thinking about my childhood bed, too. It was a bed like this, and right over here was a window to the backyard, but no one was ever in the backyard. So I’d lay on my stomach across the bed and I could look in the backyard, and no one was there so…
A meaningful place for me is the top of my Volkswagen Bug. Last week I was telling some people about how I used to do cartwheels over that Volkswagen. Another thing I loved to do on that is park at either upper Hickory Hill Park or at a farm field somewhere, and I would go out and lay on it backwards on the top of it, and it had that nice curve and arch, and it was a nice, nice…
There’s a park really close to my house that has this huge pine tree in it, and a lot of times, if I just want to walk some place, I walk down there, and I take off my shoes, and I climb up almost to the top. It’s really nice in the mornings and in the evenings because the sunsets and sunrises are really cool. You can see the rooftops down in the neighborhood. It’s really peaceful—there’s no one around…
I was born in the upper peninsula of Michigan on the Lake Superior side. We had a little cabin 12 miles out of town that my dad had ordered from Florida, and it was shipped to Michigan. And it had flaps on all four sides, so it was very difficult to heat—impossible to heat. But it had a very shallow roof which meant we had to go out there in the middle of winter and shovel off the roof so…
I grew up on a farm. We’re sitting out on the deck the other night and it just brought me back to the old farmhouse. My mother loved to sit out on the top porch deck in the evenings, and we would sit there—my brother, myself, and my mother—and those warm summer nights just watching the fireflies and the satellites. In those days satellites were a big thing, to see them go over. And I remember the creak of the…
I was raised in southern Indiana. And we have the knobs. The knobs aren’t as big as mountains, but they’re rolling hills. And a ranger told us that during the ice age, the reason we have such a variety of colors in trees is the way the ice age was. People go to the north east, that’s all red. But in my area of the country, it’s a full color spectrum: you have the reds, the oranges, the yellows, it’s absolutely…
Mother had a black cast iron Dutch oven. And their home had burned when she was a child, and that was the only thing that was salvaged from her home. And later she gave me that cast iron Dutch oven. If you’ve done any reading, cast iron is very good nutritionally. The iron comes off in your food, and it’s healthy for you to cook in cast iron.