‘Big Fish’

There are days — and honestly, some weeks and months and years — when I really wish I could wake up and be 5 years old with glow-in-the-dark stars on my ceiling and an orca whale painted on my bedroom wall again. This is one of those weeks. No, months. Quite possibly, it’s one of those years. And so when I sat down to write this week, I started thinking about what I really loved when I was 5 and if any of it would be relevant to write about… I liked horses, dinosaurs, hunting newts in the creek and playing pretend in the woods all by myself until dusk. I liked rewinding the original “Jurassic Park” to the climactic scene with the T-rex more times than any parent should be made to withstand. I liked old westerns. I liked “Tom and Jerry” and “Yogi Bear,” and when I couldn’t sleep, I begged my mom to let me watch gallbladder surgery on the Discovery Channel at 4 a.m.