Books I'm looking for

THere is one that was adapted into a Reader's Digest Article called Deliver us From Evil by Henry Hurt about Haitan Orphans and Kathy and Dan BLackburn

Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol Pre-Released

So I was at WalMart in Pittsburg California today and they had Dan Brown's new book, The Lost Symbol on the shelf! I was shaking as I picked it up and raced to the cash register. Naturally I knew that I couldn't buy it until Tuesday, but it doesn't hurt to try, right? Well, naturally it rang up "Sell Not Allowed". The cashier called a manager, I think her name was Debbie, who told me that the item had been put on hold and couldn't be sold but she didn't know why. So I told her why. Yes, I probably shouldn't have done it, but if I can't have that book, nobody can. LOL Well, she told someone else and they promptly cleared the shelf of the 10 or so copies that were out. Wow, some stock person sure fucked up last night.

First Day

On my first day of kindergarten, my mother tried to affix a blue Christmas bow to the barette in my hair. I remember her telling me that it was because all little Jewish girls wore bows in their hair on their first day of school. What does that matter I wonder. I was dressed in a little green dress with a white pinafore. I told my brother the correct way to draw a person, with two eyes one nose, one moth two arms and legs. I'm not sure why I felt that it was important for him to know how to do that.

On the first day I was seated at table two in the classroom next to my neighbor, Carrie Asberry. I was in the corner closest to the carpet and the teachers desk. I brought my Mischa bear with me and held it on the carpet during circle time. I sat behind a boy named Shawn Aragon and I remember thinking that I thought he was wearing a diaper, but it was the way his shirt was tucked into his pants.. Mrs. Beasley introduced me to Katy Wells, another girl I wonder what happened to.

Mrs. Caroline Beasley

Mrs. Beasley was my kindergarten and first grade teacher. She had brown hair and was very tolerant of me. While I was very smart, I believe that I would have been diagnosed with ADD had I been going to school at this time. I remember when she told our class she was moving up to teach first grade and had picked some of us to be in her first grade classroom. I worshipped her and it was a relief that I would have the same teacher. She taught kindergarten in room 2 and first grade in room 7 at Heights elementary in Pittsburg.

At that time, our principal was Mr. Goodwin, another man I adored. Mrs. Beasley worked with another teacher named Mrs. Marsh. Mrs. Marsh also moved up to teaching first grade at that time. I believe she taught in room 8. There were two other first grade teacher, Mrs. King and a Spanish woman whose name eludes me at this time.

Memories

Well, I have a lot of memories that I'd like to keep recorded somewhere. I guess I'll do it here simply so it will be available to me forever. So I will resurrect this blog once again to try recording my memories for posterity.