Dreamed/Dreamt as a Boy

Both words are correct past tense and past participle of the verb to dream.  The point is ... I had dreams in my early years.  Wish I’d kept a diary like my wife Kay did; (so interesting, reading through hers recently).  As I recall, mine were not fantastic like many of Kay’s dreams.

As I built things with Erector sets, I often dreamed of becoming a mechanical engineer.  (We think our first son would have been good at that career.)  I also dreamt of building a better model railroad like Great-uncle Joe’s layout in the basement of his Ogden mansion.  It was likely the fulfillment of his dream as a boy, shared in retirement years with their grandchildren.

This could go on to be more than fast personal history.  Let it be ... a short example of random, bit-by-bit writing about one’s distant past — a way I get over my “writer’s block”.  And maybe serve to encourage our young families to record and write before memories fade like mine; (complete sentences not required, for posterity’s sake).  Don’t forget — summertime can be especially dreamy!

model railroad at The Henry Ford Museum, 27 July 2018