Current Photo Friday theme: The Family
I couldn’t understand eighth grade math, so I spent every class making up stories about my pencils. The Pencil Family included a father, mother, son, daughter, and their dog Eraser. Many years later, I shared this information with my writing partners. Jim in particular thought it was hilarious, so I gave the memory to one of my characters in A Coventry Christmas as a surprise for him.
Imagine my own surprise when I heard from a reader who enjoyed the novel and who also had a Pencil Family when she was young. We’d both thought we were the only one!
Audrey, guess what? I recently read Candace Bushnell’s The Carrie Diaries, a prequel to Sex and the City, and character Carrie Bradshaw also had a Pencil Family. They were on the run from a bad guy called The Sharpener.
Bradshaw Pencils, welcome to the family.