No Smile on my Face

DL: May 5, 2017, marks the second anniversary of my mother’s death so it is fitting today to commemorate her memory by running an excerpt from her memoir, We Were Not Spoiled. To read other excerpts, click here and here and here and here.

 

In the fall of 1929, Robert joined me at school, and because he was born in February, he was two years behind me. I entered the first year of third grade. St. Peter’s School had this practice of having all the children repeat the third grade so there...