It's time for the November edition of Flashback Friday where I share events from my own life during my kid and teen years. For this installment I thought I would just embarrass myself by posting some of my break-up poems. Did you ever write those? Break-ups in high school were so *dramatic* --- the end of the world and being the budding writer that I was --- I had to immortalize my pain in the form of bad poetry. Here are two poems that I wrote to two boys after they broke my … [Read more...]

It’s the October edition of Flashback Friday where I share events from my own life during my kid and teen years. For this installment, I've included another relic from my mother's box. She is the one who encouraged my early writing and she was my first "reader" of the stories I wrote. This one is a "retelling" of a fairy tale I typed on my beloved typewriter when I was 10 years old: THE STORY OF CHICKENRELLA You may have already seen the movie or read the book but here is the untold … [Read more...]

It’s the September edition of Flashback Friday where I share events from my own life during my kid and teen years. I have to give credit to my mother for this month's flashback. When I went to Athens last weekend for the Labor Day holiday, she gave me some letters that I had typed for her birthday. I was 10 years old and it was the year I got my *first* typewriter. Let me tell you that I ADORED that typewriter. At the time my mother worked on an assembly line at a clock manufacturer and … [Read more...]

It's the August edition of Flashback Friday where I share events from my own life during my kid and teen years. Down here in the Atlanta area, school started on Monday. The bus stop is right in front of my house and it was mixture of happy kids running in circles and angry kids kicking at rocks. So I decided to find a diary entry about a first day of school, and I found one when I was in third grade. And believe me, my 8-year old self was *not* impressed with the first day of … [Read more...]