Autobiographical

I was not a creative child, but I longed to be. Throughout grammar school, I panicked whenever we had to write a poem (somehow it was never a story) and one year, avoided my teacher’s eye for weeks because he’d scrawled “Let’s talk about this” across the top of my poem about patterns. I had nothing to say. But I loved reading, and in sixth grade started to write a novel, a la Nancy Drew. But I forgot to invent a plot … Fast forward to Senior Honors English: we had to write a graduation speech. In class! The clock [...]