What's your earliest memory?

It's pretty hazy! I have certain memories of my childhood in Sugar City, Idaho...most of which are traumatic in some measure. One of my early memories is that of being "wide awake" in my bed and I looked up on the ceiling and wall closest to my bed...there were hundreds, maybe thousands of white squirming snakes above me. I must have vocalized my terror because almost immediately my father came in to save me. I remember him comforting me and assuring me that the snakes were gone and they wouldn't return. They never did.


I remember swinging on the tall metal swing set that was in our backyard in Sugar City. Somebody younger than me just had to swing also. That younger someone was Sandra; she was pretty small and quite young. Jerry and I helped her onto the swing and pushed her, and pushed her, and pushed her. She swung back and forth getting higher and higher until she lost her grip and flew like Superman through the sky and landed rather hard on the ground. Screams were raised and so was the ire of a very protective mother that came running out of the house.

I don't know how old I was on either of these occasions but I know that they are bright in my otherwise fading memory.