SOL 16/31: Party Time at Leigh Anne's Place!

It's an invitation I've expected and anticipated. It's party time at Leigh Ann Eck's place. I'm not a big time party goer, but I've come to look forward to these yearly gatherings at A Day in the Life. I hope you'll join us sometime this month.

Here's our mentor text for this year's party:

“Depending On When You Met Me” by Devon Gundry, Soul Pancake

Depending on when you met me, I might have been: a checker’s champion, the kid who squirted Super Glue in his eye, a competitive Ping-Pong player, Tweedle Dum, a high school valedictorian, a fake blond, 1/12 of an all-male a capella group, a graduate of the Vanderbilt School of Engineering, a nomad, a street musician, or a pigeon assassin.

Depending On When You Met Me by Ramona 

Depending on when you met me, I might have been: a 4-H blue ribbon holder, the mom who super glued her thumb and forefinger together, a high school graduate standing beside Carl Albert (the 46th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives), a traveler in Paris, a college graduate setting aside her chosen career for an 18 month stint in Hong Kong,  a blogger sitting in a rental car on the shores of a lake in Indiana mustering the courage to join the All Write blogger dinner, a teenager with a dream job as an employee of the Youth Conservation Corps, a poetry lover born in Mrs. Truttman's 2nd grade classroom, a prospective employee of MISD who asked the secretary if they handed out oxygen with the list of possible questions one might be asked in the interview, a book club creator (in 1987) determined not to become one of those moms who say "I haven't read a book since I had children," a teenager who attended her first two concerts in one summer (Elvis Presley and The Carpenters), a twenty something who met her intended on a blind date, a grade schooler who walked several miles to the public library more than once a week with her BFF to compete in the summer reading program, a traveler in Italy with three good friends, the young mom whose family ate pizza and had a babysitter once a week for the four years she was in graduate school, a little sis whose love of reading was nurtured by her big sis, a blogger who loves to write in the wee hours of the morning and then go back to sleep, a grandmother of four who will become the grandmother of six in July, a blogger giddy with excitement when Georgia Heard joined our table for dinner, a teacher who brought the books on her nightstand to an interview and dared to ask the interviewers what they were currently reading, the proud owner of a Plymouth Volare named Spunky (my first car at age 23), a slice of lifer born when I joined SOL ten years ago (at the urging of my sixth grade students).