Once upon a time . . .

Once upon a time, I used a pencil to put words on a page with a rubber

eraser on the top of that pencil to correct mistakes or to change the wording.

I took a typing class in junior high school and was faster at producing words.  I also remember having to erase mistakes while hoping not to ruin the whole page and have to start over completely on that sheet of paper rolled into the clickety-clack old typewriter.  It was NOT electric.  It sometimes meant crumpling up the whole page and throwing it away whether I used pencil, pen, or typewriter.

Now I use a laptop to write, skipping all that mess.  With a laptop I edit before the words ever appear on paper.  Much more efficient.  Yes, articles I've written appeared in my local newspaper back in the last century.  I have also had things I've written published in Baby Talk magazine and other places.  What I write on this blog goes all over the world, but I don't blog to get paid.  I blog to share books with friends, most of whom I've never met, but have gotten to know over the years as we read each other's posts.  It is definitely a different world now than the one I was born into in 1940.  My Wednesday Word today is "change."