![]() ![]() I had a similar experience when I came across a bunch of old theatre programs in my file cabinet. I guess this shows how really hard it is to break into the field of writing. ![]() I’d love to say that several names on this twenty-five-year-old list are now well-known authors.but I have to admit that I don’t recognize a single name. ![]() It was a list of all the people who attended the conference, all dreaming of becoming famous children’s writers. One of the most fascinating items came from a children’s writing workshop I attended in the early 1980s. Then came the electric typewriter years, followed by the early dot-matrix computer era. The files were also full of mostly half-finished, mostly half-baked stories I’d written over the years and it was fun to see the progression from handwritten tales to those banged out on our old manual typewriter. Later that day, I was emptying papers from my file cabinet and was even more shocked to find notebooks I’d purchased in junior high that cost only twenty-nine cents. And surprised you could buy anything for only seventy-six cents. Although 1984 doesn’t seem that long ago to me, I was stunned by how old-fashioned the writing and graphic on the box looked. They were purchased at K-Mart, according to the sticker on the package, in October 1984. Saturday I was at the new condo and needed a nail, so went looking in the previous owner’s kitchen junk drawer, where I discovered a little plastic box of nails. One of the delights of moving.well, there are no delights in moving.but one of the things that makes it somewhat more bearable is the discovery and rediscovery of little bits of the past. ![]() Yes, you’ll miss your frying pan for a few months, but at least you won’t be in a blind panic three days before you move because half your stuff is still sitting in drawers, on shelves, and behind those bulging closet doors. Here’s some advice for anyone contemplating a move: start packing a year in advance. Moving Day is only three days away and I’m getting worried. Welcome to another brief brunch at Collecting Children’s Books. ![]()
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