Hello!
Regular followers and visitors to this site will know I'm using BLOGGERS WERE CHILDREN TOO! for my theme this year. I hope you're enjoying reading about bloggers, some you know and some you may not yet know, as they respond to some prompts I sent out. I've been so grateful for their responses as it helped me to get to know them better, admire their stunning cuteness as babes, and delighted me with random facts.
Thank you Adult Bloggers for your heartfelt responses. Thank you readers for visiting my posts. I hope you'll leave a comment and if you'd like to follow the link to my respondents' blogs they'd be delighted to meet you.
Today:
V is for Vogt (Li Vogt) from Flash Fiction
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| Li as a disheveled child. She says nothing much has changed! |
I was born, raised and spent most of my life in Lancaster County, PA, known as the Garden Spot and the Heart Of Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
Other places I've lived include Pomona, New Jersey and McLean, Virginia.
My favorite place to live will always be Lancaster; I'm a bit of a country girl at heart. But I did enjoy living in McLean, Virginia. It's a suburban area with easy access to Washington DC via the Metro, so we could enjoy the Smithsonian museums and the Washington Zoo as well as symphonies at the Kennedy Center and events at Wolf Trap in nearby Vienna. If only the traffic on the Beltway wasn't so horrendous.
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| Li driving a covered wagon in the Bicentennial |
My worst childhood memory was having my tonsils out at age three. I remember that they clapped a gas mask over my face and I really did think I was suffocating. I can still recall the sweet, sickish odor. Coming out of recovery, my throat was on fire and yet I couldn't have a drink, only a few chips of ice to suck on. Crying, of course, made the pain worse. I'm told I fought like a tiger coming out of it...
I have lots of wonderful childhood memories - so many that I couldn't pinpoint just one. My beloved German Shepherd gave me many happy memories. I loved the beach, and I can remember finding a $5 bill floating in the surf one year - to me, it was like finding $100. I consider myself lucky to have grown up in a close-knit family with two loving parents and - appreciated only later in life - a big sister, as well as a comfortable home with lots of open space to play. In those days, we could roam pretty far and not have to worry, unlike today. I was also horse crazy, and during the Bicentennial I begged my way onto a covered wagon trip; in exchange for helping to water and care for the horses, I got to ride along and learn to drive the wagons. I also took guard duty and slept near the horses in a sleeping bag on the ground. I was just drifting off when one of them began to pee. They were sturdy Belgians weighing about a ton each and it was like Niagara Falls. I scrambled madly out of the sleeping bag and struggled to drag it uphill before the urine river reached me.
Survival lesson number one.
I've written stories since I was kid, and several draw on childhood experiences, including the story Alpha (the first of my A to Z Challenge posts). If you're interested in reading stories or finding out more about me, feel free to visit my blog. The "Published" page includes two other interviews I've done.
Thank you, Denise, for inviting me to be a part of your A to Z Challenge!!!
Wasn't it great to learn so much about Lisa's childhood. But there's more! Tune in tomorrow to find out more about Writer's Block NZ, aka JJ.
