At thirteen years old, Theron Saint James found an advertisement in the back of a comic book that promised a chance to earn some money selling Grit newspaper door to door. Before long, he had a pocket…
Some childhood memories are made on birthdays, holidays, and special occasions. Others happen when nobody realizes a memory is being made at all.In this episode, Theron Saint James remembers being…
Sometimes the people we think we know best can still surprise us.In this episode of Told by Theron St. James, Theron reaches back to a childhood evening when an unexpected commotion gave him an…
At fifteen years old, Theron thought he had the perfect plan.An old car. A summer of hard work. A driver’s license just around the corner.Everything seemed to be falling into place... until one…
Theron Saint James remembers a day when a little impatience at a parking garage turned into a lesson he wouldn’t soon forget.While waiting to exit, Theron becomes increasingly frustrated with the man…
While searching through an old storage box, Theron Saint James discovers a forgotten landscape painting he created at fifteen years old. What begins as a simple trip down memory lane soon becomes a…
Some places never really leave us.In this episode of Told By Theron St. James, Theron reflects on childhood visits to his grandparents’ old duplex on Hartford Street in St. Louis. Beneath the house…
A pair of Christmas walkie-talkies. Two boys with big imaginations. A neighborhood in downtown St. Louis transformed into the setting for a top-secret spy mission.What began as an ordinary afternoon…
Long before smartphones, social media, and endless distractions, a young boy was handed a simple but meaningful responsibility: keep ten acres of field mowed.Armed with a late-1940s Ford tractor, a…
In this episode of Told by Theron St. James, a quiet story from a neighborhood vineyard reveals a lesson that has stayed with the narrator for a lifetime. When a kind old man can no longer enjoy the…
