thoughts on the news of the day: back to school

hmmm…..

            Spiral notebooks. Check. Loose leaf paper.  Check.  Funny little butterfly folders. Check.   It’s time for back to school shopping and I always get in the mood for a big box of Crayola crayons.   Grade school years are gone; but some things you never forget.  I guess that today much of what I grew up with is gone.  Computers have changed almost everything; paper, pens, pencils are no longer needed.  They have been replaced with a funny little 3” stick called a flash drive.

            Flash drives are amazing things.  You can store almost everything on them, photos, notes, email addresses and phone numbers.  The only thing that’s tricky about them is if you lose one.  Then what do you do?  If losing your information isn’t bad enough, there is great potential for someone else getting your info and doing God knows what with it.

           I still remember my first day of school.  My brother and my sister were there to share the excitement but I was still anxious.  What if my teacher was mean?  What if I didn’t like it?  What if I didn’t make any friends?  As it turns out, I loved it; the teacher I had was the sweetest, kindest and most loving teacher I could ever hope for; and I made a best friend who still sends me a birthday card every year.   

            On my first day of school, I learned that learning is exciting; a notion that I carry with me to this day.  In fact, I have decided to go back to school to work on an advanced degree and I hope that the anticipation I have will thrill me as it did that first day of school many years ago.

            Yay!  And maybe I can buy a new box of crayons!

            hmmm…..