Something I never gave much thought to as a youngster: the older you get, the more places from your past begin to disappear.<\/p>\n

Having grown up in and around Yukon, I haven’t experienced this too often — living less than five miles away from the house you grew up in has its privileges, I suppose. The house is still there, as is my old high school, junior high, mid high, and both elementary schools I attended. (In fact, as I’ve mentioned on occasion, both of my kids attend the same elementary school I went to.) The skating rink is still the skating rink. The bowling alley is still the bowling alley. The Mill is still the Mill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s not to say things haven’t changed. What used to be Taco Mayo is now Bad Brad’s BBQ. Dairy Queen is now City Bites. Ken’s Pizza is now Mae’s Diner. There’s been lots and lots of new construction in Yukon over the past ten years, but for some reason seeing something new pop up seems less jarring than missing something old disappear.<\/p>\n

Mason has started a new Karate class. It’s taught in the old mid-high, and last week was my first night to attend the class with him. Susan told me where his class was, and once I got to the school I realized that his Karate class takes place in my old journalism classroom.<\/p>\n

Except, it doesn’t. When we got there I realized, my old classroom is gone. That end of the school has been remodeled, and my old journalism classroom has been replaced with a pom pom\/cheerleading practice room. And they didn’t just re-purpose the old room; walls were removed and doors were relocated to the point where I simply couldn’t grasp exactly where my old classroom used to be — a room that I spent four years in. I walked around a bit, trying to get my head around where things used to be, but without an old frame of reference (the old hallway was gone, too) it was tough to do.<\/p>\n

While Mason was preoccupied with learning stances and reverse punches, I sniffed around the old room like a dog, trying to remember its surroundings. Nothing. <\/p>\n

Getting old is weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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