Characters That Form Our Lives

and Later Come Alive in Our Stories
by Jackie KingOne of my earliest memories is sitting in a circle with my brother, sister and various neighbor kids as my mother told us stories. Delia Hodges Sprague could spin a yarn about any character or characters we might name. Let’s say that I wanted a story about Cinderella, my sister Joan wanted the heroine to be Wonder Woman and my brother J.D., chose Tarzan of the Apes.No problem to Mother. She’d create one tale using each of these characters. The...