My mom saved a lot of the things I made when I was a kid, and when she moved after retiring she gave them to me. I still have them downstairs and I can picture a few of the things in that box including a little book I put together.

Designed with clipart that I put together on our first computer, printed out on our old school printer with the perforated paper, it was a book about pigs – my favourite animal at the time. As I recall there is some poetry and a short story.

I loved making up stories.

The other day the kid was out in the backyard. She pulled out the sidewalk chalk and started drawing on the patio stones.  When I went out to see what she was up to, she showed me the story she had written.

She’s been making up stories for a while now, fantastic ones and plain old lies, but it was lovely to see that she wants to write them down too.

Her stuffed toy was telling her hilarious knock knock jokes