Kelly Salasin

Tag: Philadelphia

  • Young at Heart (Never Grow Up!)

    I remember the exact moment that I became a grownup.  It was on a playground in a suburb outside Philadelphia, and I was only twenty-one years old.   A six-year old, named Danny Goldstein, was to blame. I’d spent the better part of my youth avoiding “growing up” because I knew that I didn’t want any…

  • “That’s My Daddy” from 4 to 40

    by Kelly Salasin “That’s my daddy! That’s my daddy!” A four-year old girl stands with a tiny suitcase in hand as a passenger ferry pulls into dock. When she spies her father on the second-story deck, she jumps up and down, shouting, “That’s my daddy! That’s my daddy!” Surprisingly, that little girl is me (almost…