They say that all you really need to know, you learn in kindergarten. Well, I didn’t go to kindergarten. And since I’m a slow learner, I didn’t get the important stuff till second-grade. And there I learned that you should share everything. (Except maybe for saliva.) This was pretty apparent because Mrs. Crouch had stressed this from …
Charles Dickens and Sleepovers
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity.” I’m speaking of course about childhood slumber parties. This was indeed the best of times. In our small town, slumber parties were usually celebrating …
Ladybugs and Hippo Holes
It was the ladybugs’ fault. Scarlet and I found a swarm of them at recess. Now, I don’t know if ladybugs actually swarm, but when you are in second grade, it really doesn’t matter. After all, we were searching for a four-leaf clover at the time anyway. But since four-leaf clovers were hard to find and ladybugs were not, we …
Ready for the Day
“They chose someone with no experience!” Alyssa wailed to her mother. The shock of the statement hit Scarlet as hard as it had her daughter. As a rising high school senior, Alyssa should have been a shoo-in for captain of the flag team. The only girl in her school with three years experience on flags, she had worked …