Morapos School News Today

Last year at this time, I wrote a column about celebrating Valentine’s Day when I was a kid attending the Morapos School. Besides other activities, we decorated a valentine box with a slot in the...

Each winter when we were growing up on the ranch, my siblings and I came down with some kind of illness that I’m guessing was a flu. We didn’t go to the doctor as one...

It’s not the displays of back-to-school supplies in local stores that trigger memories of my childhood days or the conversations with area residents about the year’s first day of school either. It isn’t even the...

When I was a kid, discovering an apple or orange — especially an orange — in my Christmas stocking was a big deal. In these “modern” days we’re used to buying apples and oranges and…

When I was a kid, the days following Thanksgiving and those leading up to Christmas vacation were especially busy at the Morapos School because we had to get ready for the Christmas program. In those…

Beautiful fall days, like today, take me back to the Septembers and Octobers when I was growing up on the ranch. During those days the temperature was just right and the leaves on the chokecherry,…