Kid Stuff

 

    I triumphantly return from the attic, old journals under my arm. Here it is, for you: the best of the best of my life: 1991-1996. See what a great writer I was even in first and second grade. As an extra treat, you can now see what I looked like when I wrote these. Yeah, I know how all you guys like imagining ten year old girls writing stuff. Oooh, yeeeaaahh...... Right. Here's me and Slippers in January of 1992, in May of 1992,and in the summer of 1993. Wasn't I just adorable? 

All spelling/punctuation/grammar has been preserved

A Unicorn?  I really don't remember singing this for my teacher, but I probably did.
A Person?  Back in... I guess it was first grade. We had to draw pictures in our journals, then take them to the teacher and she would write our stories for us.
Lamb  Heheh, this is funny because I said 'shnoz"
January 13 Wow, I sure was creative.
Fire Tree See, this is the kind of thing that gives me nightmares now. It's so creepy. Weird to think that I thought of this in first grade.
Singing Flowers I don't know how these two stories are related.
Weird Things Those "Mexican girls" look kinda suspicious.
Weird Flower Dancing Fun  I really do remember writing a picture book about flowers once, but this is the closest thing I could find to it. I wonder where it went... It had weird things in it, like the dog flower, because dogs like it, and there was a singing flower, too.
Bunny Walk  I had a bunny named Bonnie once. 
If Green Frogs Were Red  Yes, the red death makes frogs red.
How to Become a Zucchini in Three Days  The only thing I could find of the several things I wrote with my friend (back in 'bama) Rachel. I was in 4th & 5th grade with her. (yes, our teacher made us write this after reading "How to be a perfect person in three days" or whatever that weird book was. (our other possibilities I found in our brainstorming notes was "how to be queer", "insane", "how to lose your friends" or "how to annoy popular people".
Fables  I think the one about the snake is incredibly clever. Except I don't get the part about "it was a lie".
My Life  Our teacher made us write a five chapter autobiography. I wrote about my pets. Weird, weird, weird. I like the picture in there... (that's what made me make Jimmy draw me a rabbit in a microwave.)
Alex's Flight We were supposed to write a fairy tale. Watch me try to be all dramatic and scary! Oooh, there's something in the bush! Hold me, I'm scared!!