“Get in a straight line, children. We’re going to the gym to get our polio vaccines,” the teacher said.   We second graders were old enough ...

  My father put his hands on the wheel of the car while my brother and I sandwiched ourselves between him and my mother.   Seat belts and ca...

  I was sitting with my mother at the kitchen table eating half a bologna sandwich when we heard a knock on the door.   My mother walked to ...