David Townsend: As I write McEuen Field outside my office is filling up with kids from the Sorenson Magnet School having a field day, to mark the end of school, I assume. Ah, to be a fifth-grader again full of energy and creeping hormones. Of course there were heartaches then, too. Like when that first crush led to nothing and you found out "she didn't like you that way." I wonder if it is harder to be that age now?
Question: Do you think it's harder to be a 5th-grader today than when you were in the 5th grade? And/Or: When did you suffer your first bout of puppy love?
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.
Townsend: As I write McEuen Field outside my office is filling up with kids from the Sorenson Magnet School having a field day, to mark the end of school, I assume. Ah, to be a fifth-grader again full of energy and creeping hormones. Of course there were heartaches then, too. Like when that first crush led to nothing and you found out "she didn't like you that way." I wonder if it is harder to be that age now?
