123. End of Once I Was A Kid
Last week was the Conclusion of Once I Was A Kid, With the Wild Things On the Farm. It was delightful and nostalgic to relive and share with you memories from my youth on the farm, especially with wild pets and animals.
My favorite and most successful wild pet was Bandit, the raccoon, and of course Barney the crow. Riding Smokey, my pony, was always an adventure. There were several dreaming places, The Fantasy Forest at the back of the farm, and by The Pond at the west end, and the closest, just “disappearing” in the grass under an apple tree to listen to bugs perform their Springtime Symphony.
I wrote these memories because they inspired rhyming stories that capture the imagination of the experience. These are published as an ebook, Once I Was A Kid, With the Wild Things On the Farm.
You can get the ebook to download to your cell phone, computer or tablet for $0.99 on Amazon or Barnes and Noble. Go to their website and type in the search bar – “Once I Was A Kid Robert Z Hicks” – to bring up the book.
OR use the link below to all the ebook digital stores where Once I Was A Kid is available. Click on the digital store of your choice. Amazon (Kindle), Barnes & Noble (Nook), Apple (iBooks) etc.
https://www.books2read.com/RobertZHicks
I received feedback expressing regret that the memories were ending, that they had enjoyed sharing my memories. The good news is that this book was only the memories that had a poem attached, and there is ANOTHER book of memories, not published, that I can share.
Memories of Daddy are my memories, and my Dad’s life, seen through my eyes, is a journey of an amazing man who lived through a time of incredible changes.
Daddy, Leland Hicks, was born in 1894, saw combat in WW1, watched a man step on the moon, raised two kids, (myself and my sister Jan) and lived to age 92 living on the farm near Ionia Michigan.
Next time, we’ll start the story.