My Roller Skates

When I was little I used to like playing with my friends, like everybody else. However, my favorite time of the day was, indeed, when we all got together, and put on our roller skates!

What a blessing back then, when children could just go outside and enjoy a good time roller skating. My mom used to say-“Silvana, you would sleep with your roller skates, if I let you, ugh?-“And I agreed! She never let me do that, but I would put my pair under my bed, or close enough to see them, first thing in the morning!

My mom knew how much I liked roller skates that she sent me to take classes. I was seven years old. I did not enjoy the class very much. It was more learning about figure skating and how to jump in the air, type of class. Anyhow, my favorite part of my “patín” day, was when I came back from it and we went with my friends skating across our neighborhood.

Every Christmas, for five years, Santa would bring me a pair of roller skates.  I never got the once I really liked but, I was super happy, JUST by receiving any kind of skates! My dream of owning a pair of white leather with red wheels roller skates became a reality much later; when I became a mother and started playing with my children. One day, as I was driving my kids to school, and by accident, I saw them. There they were in a garage sale! They were sitting on a table,   they were shining like a star and, I could hear them calling me-“come and get me-“And that was, exactly, what I did. I couldn’t believe that I was holding in my hand my dream roller skates, after so many years.

I still have my roller skates. They look so old, but I love them. They bring me good memories. Once in a while I put on my roller skates and they make me feel, like a child all over again!

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Trust me, I have been writing; just not on my personal blog. I have started homeschooling my children and it has been challenging for our entire family. So many things to organize and schedules to keep up with, that I barely have time to write on my personal blog and writing nooks I have all over the place. I see my blogs as books I never published on paper! I see them as an excellent way to practice English and my typing skills. Am I a writer? I don’t know. All I know is that I truly enjoy the written word. I like to sit at the computer or in my garden just thinking about writing. Everything I see, every situation I am in, every picture I take, it becomes a great opportunity for me to write about.

When I went to Argentina last year, one of my closest friends in high school reminded me that I liked to write back then. I did not recall doing this in High school; however I do remember doing it, a lot, during my early years. It was very nice to hear from someone who shared time with me during our crazy time in High school that I enjoyed writing. My family already gave up telling me not to have many blogs, I cannot help it! I enjoy writing, I like to see my words on a piece of paper, I enjoy other peoples writing and I love to read. I don’t always have the time to do it, but I surely strive to accomplish writing, reading and typing.

I discovered I like to write and where I like to do it? You guessed it; in my garden and on my desk, facing my garden! I have been practicing writing for, at least, five uninterrupted years! And I always feel that I am so inadequate and that I need more practice! Anyhow, I think my next thing will be trying to discover my voice. Everybody talks about “the voice of the writer” “find your voice” “what is your voice” I am not quite sure I understand what this is, but I will work on it.