At Home in Mississippi
Viewing comments for Chapter 45 "Eighth Grade Continues."Growing up in the 40 and 50 in MIssissippi
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Comment from patcelaw
This is another very well written chapter for your book and telling the story of your life and I enjoyed very much listening to it. I wish you the very best with all of your writing. Also, wish you a wonderful day and a good week. Patricia.
reply by the author on 30-Sep-2024
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This is another very well written chapter for your book and telling the story of your life and I enjoyed very much listening to it. I wish you the very best with all of your writing. Also, wish you a wonderful day and a good week. Patricia.
Comment Written 25-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 30-Sep-2024
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Thank you, Patricia. You are in my prayers this morning. I'm sure I'd be anxious. Let us hear from you soon.
Love
Beth
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Thank you, Patricia. You are in my prayers this morning. I'm sure I'd be anxious. Let us hear from you soon.
Love
Beth
Comment from Tom Horonzy
Thanks for sharing the "Days of Our Lives" in your life. I remember the fifties and how classmates has a composition tablet with each student have their name on a page and as they were passed along comments from the reader would be penned about the subject considered. There were some that were viewed kindly, and then there was me. I'd love to recover one of those journals today.
One correction to consider... both with flip over, yuo did mean would, right?
reply by the author on 25-Sep-2024
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Thanks for sharing the "Days of Our Lives" in your life. I remember the fifties and how classmates has a composition tablet with each student have their name on a page and as they were passed along comments from the reader would be penned about the subject considered. There were some that were viewed kindly, and then there was me. I'd love to recover one of those journals today.
One correction to consider... both with flip over, yuo did mean would, right?
Comment Written 25-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 25-Sep-2024
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Thank you, Tom, I had diaries back in those day that I love to see again but I never finished one. Thank for pointing out the wrong word. I'm glad these make people remember their on class days.
Beth
Comment from jim vecchio
I enjoyed this very much> I remembered my joy when I won a creative writing contest in Grade School. Know how much that fifteen dollars meant to you? In the nineties, while working s a Program Coordinator, I accepted an assignment to free-lance for a local paper. I wrote about a City Hall event in which the speakers told of services to the Disabled. Sleepless, I went to work in the morning. The editor said it was the best first-time feature he ever read. It took up three-quarters of a page. It brought me fifteen dollars.
reply by the author on 30-Sep-2024
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I enjoyed this very much> I remembered my joy when I won a creative writing contest in Grade School. Know how much that fifteen dollars meant to you? In the nineties, while working s a Program Coordinator, I accepted an assignment to free-lance for a local paper. I wrote about a City Hall event in which the speakers told of services to the Disabled. Sleepless, I went to work in the morning. The editor said it was the best first-time feature he ever read. It took up three-quarters of a page. It brought me fifteen dollars.
Comment Written 25-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 30-Sep-2024
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Thank you for a great review. I can imagine agonizing all night trying to make sure the feature was perfect.
Beth
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At least, like the terrible play I wrote, I felt accomplishment when the task was done.
Comment from Wayne Fowler
Very well written.
What a talent you were (are). Congratulations on all your accolades.
I had assumed I just sang also. - alto?
Best wishes.
reply by the author on 25-Sep-2024
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Very well written.
What a talent you were (are). Congratulations on all your accolades.
I had assumed I just sang also. - alto?
Best wishes.
Comment Written 25-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 25-Sep-2024
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Thank you, Wayne. I appreciate the review. No, I didn't mean alto. I was trying to be funny. I meant I sang also. I didn't know what you called the different voices.
Beth
Comment from LJbutterfly
Many things happened when you were in the eighth grade. Having a pen pall from China must have been interesting. I remember having pen pals whose names came from the newspaper under the pen pal section. It is amazing you had stories published in your school newspaper as part of the writing staff. You have been writing for a long time. I'm thoroughly enjoying your current stories.
reply by the author on 30-Sep-2024
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Many things happened when you were in the eighth grade. Having a pen pall from China must have been interesting. I remember having pen pals whose names came from the newspaper under the pen pal section. It is amazing you had stories published in your school newspaper as part of the writing staff. You have been writing for a long time. I'm thoroughly enjoying your current stories.
Comment Written 25-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 30-Sep-2024
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Thank you for the great review. After the school years were over there were many years I didn't write, except for a poem ever now and and then. If I'd kept on writing instead of waiting until I was older and retired, I might have gotten somewhere with it.
Beth
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Thank you for the great review. After the school years were over there were many years I didn't write, except for a poem ever now and and then. If I'd kept on writing instead of waiting until I was older and retired, I might have gotten somewhere with it.
Beth
Comment from Marilyn Hamilton
Just amazing.. You even remember the name of your pen pal from the Republic of China! You had to have kept journals to remember all these details. I remember a few things from Junior High School but the thing I remember most was my extreme hatred of gym class after showers became a mandatory thing. Very interesting as always. Thanks for sharing.
reply by the author on 12-Oct-2024
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Just amazing.. You even remember the name of your pen pal from the Republic of China! You had to have kept journals to remember all these details. I remember a few things from Junior High School but the thing I remember most was my extreme hatred of gym class after showers became a mandatory thing. Very interesting as always. Thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 25-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 12-Oct-2024
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Thank you, Marilyn. I don't know why that name of my pen pal sticks in my mind. I was always fascinated by other cultures. Now, I have a daughter-in-law from South Korea.
Comment from Begin Again
Way to go, Beth! You're quite the entrepreneur, even if you didn't solicit the business. News travels when you are good at something. Very interesting chapter as a teenager. Thanks for sharing.
smiles, Carol
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reply by the author on 29-Sep-2024
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Way to go, Beth! You're quite the entrepreneur, even if you didn't solicit the business. News travels when you are good at something. Very interesting chapter as a teenager. Thanks for sharing.
smiles, Carol
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Comment Written 25-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 29-Sep-2024
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Thank you, Carol, I appreciate you reading my memories. Any extra money back in those days seemed like a fortune.
Beth
Comment from barbara.wilkey
Sounds as if you're doing wonderful at this beginning of your teenage years. I had fun reading and remembering how some of those things still happened when I was in school. I am so enjoying reading your memoirs.
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reply by the author on 12-Oct-2024
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Sounds as if you're doing wonderful at this beginning of your teenage years. I had fun reading and remembering how some of those things still happened when I was in school. I am so enjoying reading your memoirs.
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Comment Written 25-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 12-Oct-2024
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Thank you, Barbara. I'm glad what I write brings back memories for those who read it.
Beth