Please Describe How You Became a Writer by Naomi Shihab Nye

Here’s a little bit of prose that made me smile.

Please Describe How You Became a Writer
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Possibly I began writing as a refuge from our insulting first grade text book. Come, Jane, come. Look, Dick, look. Were there ever duller people in the world? You had to tell them to look at things? Why weren’t they looking to begin with?

Current Tea: chocolate rum (black tea with chocolate and rum flavoring)

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