Nonfiction

The sound of blinkers always sounds like music to me. Whenever I am in the car and we are waiting for a while at a stop with the blinker on I sometimes imagine a beat or words in between. The songs can depend on what I am thinking about.

Vaccine Day Diary Part I

Okay PENELOPE, wow thanks for all the support, I really appreciate it! 


PENELOPE  APR 16, 2021

That's awesome!



PENELOPE  APR 08, 2021

There is a Yiddish insult that goes something like, "May a small child be named after you shortly." The reason behind this zinger is that in the Jewish traditon, it is common to name babies after a deceased realitive.

DANGER: A STORY OF WORLD WAR Ⅱ



Cabot Spatz

Chapter 1

I become a Nazi
Berlin, Germany

 Fall 1942

He was my age. 
He could've gone to school with me. 
He could've had classes with me. 
He could've been my best friend. 

He was my age. 
He dropped the gun. 

POGPOGPOG!!!

My poem got published in the Addison Independent paper yesterday! Also, I'm the first person in Lincoln to get my poem published!
 

swullocking -- muggy, sultry
welkin -- sky
gleen -- burst of sunshine, or a gap in the clouds
brumous -- foggy
brae -- a steep hillside or bank

One fact about graffiti is that most of the time when you see it, It's done without permission. Most people wouldn't want graffiti painted on their building without permission.

You know when you’re little and your family always did that thing that made everyone happy and now you look back and it’s like where has all this gone? I have so many memories and moments that I think of every once and a while and it’s like wow.

God, it’s finally spring. I can feel my face burning as I read out on the patio this morning. I wish that spring meant something other than an unfounded, unsubstantiated brightness that threatens oblivion and a terrible headache.

My childhood was PBS Kids on weekends and rainbow goldfish for snacks. It was books and reading, warmth and love.