Write to this Prompt: A Life in Headlines

Fourth Grade, age 9 - “The Greatest Gift” Essay winner, alongside Wendy Foskett and Sam Foos. Picture in the paper and a fat check for ten dollars. You can’t tell from the black and white Times Herald photo but I wore a lilac sweater and hot-rollered hair. Everyone else was looking at the camera,I was staring down at my money.

Fifth Grade, age 10 - Campfire Camp girls standing in front of the bank. I forget the name of the bank even though I had my first savings account there. Count 'em, all thirteen dollars for probably six months until I drained that sucker. Most likely my word record savings at lucky number thirteen though. We wore our blue campfire beaded vests and red sashes. I couldn’t find a white shirt which was the regulation uniform so I wore a weird speckled red campfire T-shirt under my vest. With my glasses and my eye patch and my campfire kerchief and my fly unzipped. Nice to have that Kodak moment in the paper for posterity.