Everything I share and write about on When We Were Seven.
of books
I list each book I’ve quoted or referenced in a When We Were Seven Bookshop.org List. This is an affiliate-linked list that benefits my local indie-bookstore directly. I hope you’ll consider purchases from here, but the list is primarily just a cool way to maintain a list of books. (Learn more about bookshop.org and support YOUR local indie bookstore.)
of songs
I’ve made a playlist on Spotify for When We Were Seven.
of videos
“What Did They Say?” by Kevin Jin Kwan Kim. 1 minute film. His post on IG began, “I immigrated to Canada at 7 years old, and as the story usually goes, I learned English much faster than my parents and ended up as the family translator…”
of essays
Brad Snyder’s essay in Huffpost Personal contains the line, “I was 7 and lying on the examination table at my pediatrician’s office.”
Charles Duffie’s flash piece, “The New World” in The Atticus Review in 2019 begins, “I was seven years old when mom took me to Japan.” [WWW7 Issue Charles, age 7]
Christine Caprio’s “Believe in Magic” in Yankee Magazine. “I was 7 years old, peering into the palm of the naturalist who was leading my family’s dune buggy tour in the outermost dunes of Provincetown, on Cape Cod.”
T.S. Davis’ flash piece, “My First Inkling” in New York Times Tiny Love Stories (Not the title essay, but the first one in the list.) “When I was 7, my grandmother told me she saw Haley’s comet in 1910.”
