Dateline Marietta, Georgia: Mylie Cyrus and Johnny Depp, You’re on Alert!
Published March 3rd, 2008I spent the weekend in Marietta, GA, just outside of Atlanta. The highlight of the trip was visiting my nephew Tommy’s fifth-grade class at Rocky Mount School. Another round of perfect questions:
“Will you remember us when you become famous?”
“Did you type the book yourself?”
“If you sell the movie rights, I think Miley Cyrus should play Penny.”
“And Johnny Depp should be Conor.”
“And you [meaning me] should play the mom!”
The casting is done, Hollywood. No worries!
The children then did some amazing writing about their names, whether they liked their names, who named them. One girl said she wished her last name was Kool and her first name Chrysanthemum. “Then I’d be called Chrys Kool.” We then did some “People say I’m.., But really ….” poetry. My favorite line, “People say I’m annoying, but they’re probably right.” And “People say I’m weird, but really I like being different.”
I also did a reading at Border’s, and a little girl asked, “Did you use your imagination to write your book?” And my best compliment, from my nephew Michael, “Your book sounds very descriptive.”
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