It's strange the things that get burned into your memory. One of my earliest ones is being at the daycare at my mother's gym and just having none of it, crying and crying until she gave up on working out completely.
Sometimes it's something you've heard - I wrote this story after listening to the Steve Dangle Podcast while stuck in traffic at the corner where the QEW/Red Hill Valley Parkway meet.
When I heard the Toronto Maple Leafs signed Mercyhurst defender Joseph Duszak to an ELC in March, 2019 it was March Break for Ontario schools and we had taken the kids to the Buffalo Science Museum (I highly recommend it, you can even book time in the observatory on the roof) and we were in the Animal exhibit laughing at the Dik-dik, when the notification came through.