Memoir Personal Essay

Introduction

I remember the day like it was yesterday. It was a sunny Wednesday afternoon in 1991, and I was watching a TV report on the Space Shuttle Columbia's latest trip into outer space. My mother was in the kitchen washing the dishes, as I enjoyed every moment of that first week of June. The smell of dish washing soap was in the air and the warm sun felt amazing as the rays fell on me through the window. I do not remember very vividly but I admit that the details I do remember have been etched in my ...