Like My Mother Said, You Can't Go

I Know Where "blubber" Came From. It Came From Stories That My Daughter Told Me When She Came Home From Fifth Grade. There Was A Kid In The Class Who Was Being Bullied. We Didn't Even Call It Bullying Then, That's What's So Weird. Victimization In The Classroom. The Word Bully Was So Out, Was So Not In Use For All Those Years And Now It's Back Big Time.

With "margaret," I Remember Clearly It Was, You Know Because I Did Remember It Clearly. I Was Young. I Was Young In Terms Of Experience And What Did I Know About And I Had An Incredible Memory From My Own Childhood. And So It Never Occurred To Me To Write For Any Other Age Group. And I Thought I'm Going To Write A Book And I'm Going To Tell The Truth.

I Like To Read Fiction Best And I Like To Write Fiction, Too.

I Don't Really Know Exactly How It Happened But I Don't Like The Idea That I Would Ever Have Said I'm Going To Write About Racism Or Puberty Or Bullying.

I Don't Necessarily Want To Talk About A Book That I Read. Even When I Love It.