My kid self at my grandparents

1–2 minutes

If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?

I know, time travel, space-time, etc.

Sometimes, you just need to break some rules.

Sometimes, adult life gets you down. Work, keeping a home, relationships. All the things. They can’t really be poofed away, can they? So a chance to go back and just enjoy favorite people for a day? Yes, I would do that.

I’d wake up in my small bed with the picture of Jesus knocking on the door. I’d pretend to sleep walk past my grandma as she sat at the table doing the daily word puzzle from the newspaper. I’d hop on the phonebooks at the kitchen table so I was high enough to eat my porridge (oatmeal). I’d build a card castle. I’d perch on the middle bar of grandpa’s bike while he’d bike to the playground.

Yeah, all of those things. I miss that time, a lot.