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Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids went really well

Last Monday, upstairs at the Victory Cafe, I hosted the very first Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids — an evening of childhood poems, schoolwork, and diary readings. I was really worried that nobody would show up, and that I’d have to read from my Grade 1 journal all alone, for an hour. But [...]

Straight back to ’88

Just in time for my poorly named evening of reading (Adults Read Things They Wrote as Kids), a package from my Mom arrived in the mail: Inside, I found five scribblers.* They were all journals from elementary school at Sackville Centennial. There’s some great stuff inside, and I’m looking forward to reading from these on [...]

I need stuff you wrote as a kid

Update: Looking for information about Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids? Visit danmisener.com/read Do you still have anything you wrote as a kid? A poem? A book report? A diary? I want you to read it out loud. In front of people. I think most of us have a collection of stuff from our [...]