Are These the Good Old Days?

Darcy Reeder
Sep 3, 2018 · 3 min read
My kid when she was a baby, in Port Townsend, hugging the beach

I’m driving with my kid to a 3rd birthday party yesterday, when Macklemore and Kesha’s song Good Old Days comes on the radio. I start crying — bawling — as I sing along to the chorus, lost in thoughts about my life before becoming a parent.

Afterwards I turn off the radio and ask my 4-year-old:

“Did you like that song?”

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Darcy Reeder

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