Post #133 – Women’s Memoirs, ScrapMoir – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett
It’s June Memoir Writing Contest Winner
Today, we are pleased to publish the first Honorable Mention winner in our June Memoir Writing Contest that gave women an opportunity to share their storytelling skills around the topic of June. Women’s Memoirs offers our congratulations to Sara Etgen-Baker for her charming story recalling summer camp.
Congratulations Sara on your award-winning memoir vignette.
SHADY ACRES DAY CAMP
By Sara Etgen-Baker
I always loved June even though it heralded the three-month sauna season in North Texas—a time of heat and steam that required having all the windows wide open. So when I woke to June’s open windows, I sometimes lingered in bed relishing all the sights, tastes, and sounds of summer—the fragrance of mother nature’s honeysuckle bush, the taste of juicy ripe plums that grew on the trees in our backyard, the sound of clothes slapping themselves dry on the clothesline adjacent to my bedroom window, and the savory aroma of grilled hamburgers and hot dogs cooked to burnt perfection.
June also marked the beginning of summer—a time for me to shed both my heavy childhood responsibilities and my school clothes. I felt content—almost complacent—with the promise of the abundance of days that lay before me like a vast ocean. Soon urgency replaced my complacency, for I feared summer would be too short. Summer always seemed like a promissory note—signed in June with its long days spent and gone before I knew it—due to be repaid come September. [click to continue…]
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