Sentimental Education

(with apologies to Flaubert)

I’ve recently enjoyed conversations—actual and virtual—with folks who spent their childhoods in the same places as I had. I almost wrote “grew up where I did.” But, as there is considerable disagreement (among those who know me) concerning the question of whether I have, or have not, “grown up,” I thought better of it.

Coincidentally, it’s now trout sea…