May 2, 2021

Life Before Vaccinations

Part of my childhood was coated with Calamine Lotion

Every-so-often I look over my previous writing. Doing so mostly annoys me; I find mistakes I shouldn’t have missed, ideas I can’t believe I didn’t include, punctuation that would up the blood pressure of my elementary school teachers. Sometimes though I find a column, written about the past that is screamingly relevant. This is one.

I had every childhood illness known to the Western Hemisphere, or so it seemed. Kids today, and their parents, just don’t know what they are…