Emily Hinkle-DeGraff
Bio
I like books. I like D&D. If you want me to write things, say so. I'm really cooperative and unfortunately kind.
Stories (2/0)
the Young Old Lady
I was 12 years old when my grandmother bought a knitting kit for me and told me she was going to teach me how to knit. I was an epic failure. She was left handed and I was right handed and she did it completely differently than I had to in order to make it work. I was supposed to be knitting a very simple purse with a beautiful crystal button in the middle and I botched the job over and over again. She would rip it out and would adjust it for me so I felt like I had accomplished something. For months I battled with the needles and yarn, not understanding the mechanics at all and, frankly, I thought it was odd that I wasn't yet in my teens being taught what is well known to be an older lady activity. I felt I didn't have a knack for it and the project was abandoned for months on end.
By Emily Hinkle-DeGraff3 years ago in Families
National Security
It is a common practice not to judge a book by its cover, but rather by its contents. Unless you are a criminal. The kind of person who mangles the pages to hide their valuables behind the cover, who lays them down spread open on their face to mark their place, who cuts them into sculptures to sit in a museum, never to be read. That kind of person came running through my bookstore this afternoon. I didn’t recognize him as a criminal, just the sort of person who was late for a meeting and really didn’t want to chat. I own a small bookstore, and he came through and asked directly where the notebooks were. I pointed them out and he slipped behind the shelves. Not five minutes passed by and he ran back up with a small black notebook in the plastic cover, tossed it at me and demanded that I ring it up.
By Emily Hinkle-DeGraff3 years ago in Criminal