Half of the Brain :
the place all those random thoughts that flit through my head each day go to die

the anthem of the 80's child

"You threw out my Nancy Drew books
My model horses from Massachuseets
All my Barbies, All my Kens
My stuffed animals-- my best friends"
by Tuscadero

man I wish I still had all that stuff!

so, did you have to write book reports when you were in elementary school? Could you write about any book you wanted or was there a list from which you had to choose. I always wanted to write about the adolescent mystery series-- Nacy Drew, Trixie Belden, etc. But we always had to write about "classics". Island of the Blue Dolphin was the teachers' perennial favorite. Year after year we were encouraged to read it. It seemed to matter not at all that I had already read it. The logic of that didn't make sense to me then and all these years later... it still doesn't.