Life Lessons: Grocery Bags and a Bottle of Ketchup

Google Street View: Saint Anthony Park Branch Library, 2245 Como Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota. (Image taken October 2023) from Google Street View February 10, 2025; used w/o permission.

Saint Anthony Park public library looks about the way I remember it, back in the early 1960s: from this angle, at any rate. It was on the other side of a small 'downtown', between Carter and Doswell Avenues on Como.

I visited that shopping area recently, using Google Street View. I'd hoped to spot the grocery my mother sent me to, but the library's the only thing that looked familiar: hardly surprising, after upwards of six decades....

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(Breaking a bottle of ketchup when I was 12 felt awful. But I learned about priorities, how families work, and how to be a parent.)

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