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At Dalton Elementary School, my sister-in-law Lisa was helping first-graders learn their states last week. She received the usual input when she asked the youngsters to name states off the top of their heads. Idaho. Of course. Ditto for California. Then came the show stopper. The third little one suggested “Athol.” Which surprised Lisa. She responded that Athol wasn’t a state. But the student persisted: “Yes it is. My grandmother lives there.” Mebbe Athol is a state of mind?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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JeanieSpokane on March 09 at 8:35 a.m.
My kids are grown and on their own now, but I have a collection of some of their sayings. My all-time favorite though was when they were 4 and 5 and I picked them up from day care after a very windy, blustery day, where we had gusts and whirlwinds all day long. They boys were saucer-eyed when they got in the back seat, and both were exclaiming, “Mom! Mom! We had tomato warnings!” I could instantly visualize tomatoes falling from the sky.