Flashback

Right after my daughter Mia was born my parents sold their home of 38 years and moved to a smaller place. It was as they were putting the house on the market that my dad took his 'take it or lose it' stance on all of our childhood mementoes. I ended up with a giant tub full of photo albums, cards, a blue graduation cap with a bright orange tassel (Go Hawks!), 20-year old love letters from my husband, journals, scrapbooks and my once prized possession: my Judy Blume box set. I gasped as I...