Musings and Wonderings
As far as I can remember, I've loved to walk anywhere. When I was a girl growing up in Pittsburgh, I would walk with my mother and my sister down sidewalks made of red bricks in herringbone designs trying not to step on a crack and save my mother's back. Eventually I would be reprimanded for dawdling-sadly my mom didn't know I was saving her back health. Black patent leather shoes angling into brick outlines made a rhythm of hopping and hoping to land inside the lines. I grew up in the city and I recall one street that had many oak trees and a black cast iron fence edging a grand property. In the fall my sister and I would walk through the fallen brown crunchy leaves kicking them high up in the air, laughing and giggling. We also walked to school daily. five or six blocks passing crossing guards in blue and white uniforms. Near the end of fall, my mother would bundle me up in a hat and scarf and once around the bend when she couldn't see me-off would go the ha