TERRY GROVES

As you can imagine, keeping the home of six boys (we were all within eight years of age), was a big job for our mom. Of course, we were a...

As brats, we were taught how to handle emergencies.

Winter in Kingston was magical. Even though it was pretty cold, there was so much to do in the snow, so many activities that it left me...

It is peculiar how some memories remain so vivid while others fade. Perhaps that is just the course of your life. I know this one shows...

When you're a kid, nothing has to be what it was designed to be. A youthful imagination can turn just about anything, into just about...

As you can imagine, money was tight in our family of eight. Us boys were growing fast and our furnaces needed constant stoking. Eating...

Did you ever do things just to annoy your parents? My brothers and I came up with a few things along that track. I remember, back in the...

Going to the movies was quite a tradition when I lived in the PMQs in Clinton in the 60s. The theater was called The Pegasus, and had a...

My older brother Robin and I headed to the store. It was in a strip mall near Jameswood School. We were not supposed to go there but...

It was the summer of '67 or '68 and we were living in the PMQs at CFB Clinton. I guess my older brothers, Mark and Robin, were feeling...

I don't have a lot of memories of Jameswood Drive school even though I went there for grade 1 and 2 beginning in 1963. Here is what I do...

I don't know where this bit of trivia came from but I recall being told it by my older brother Mark. I am not certain why I recall this...

In about 1968, when I was ten or so, I had a bit of a fascination with fire. I wasn't running around lighting them, I just liked how a...

It was all about the games.

Why do we make some of the choices we do?

Do you remember when you were young and knew everything? Yeah, me too. In grade six, while living in Clinton PMQs, my best friend, Paul...

Growing up the brat life you get used to leaving friends behind and making new ones at the other end of the move. Too, you get exposed to...

Sometimes the simplest things bring the most reward. As you can imagine, growing up in a single income family with five brothers, there...

When I was about six or seven I had my first encounter with the law. My older brothers, Mark, and Robin, me, my younger brother Paul and...

A brief experience on a farm.