Chalk Talk

"Beep beep! Excuse me! Coming through."

My sister and I roll past each other and my elbow bumps hers.

"Hey, watch it!" I glance back at her and glare. "I said excuse me."

Ashley stops her blue-wheeled razor scooter and shoots me one of her "I'm the older sister so I'm in charge" looks before rolling forward again.

"I was in my own lane. Not my fault you can't keep your scooter in the lines."

"I think you drew wobbly lines."

"Did not! Whatever. It's my turn to be the cop!" She calls out as her scooter brakes squeal. She comes to a stop and turns around.

Underneath our scooters lies a chalk town of eight different roads, one highway, a coffee shop, and a marketplace. The little make-believe blue, green, and yellow town begs the artistic recognition of the other eight-year-olds in the outlying cul-de-sacs.

"Bring it on, cop," I yell over my shoulder as I skate by the little green Starbucks café. "You can't catch me."

Welcome to my blog!

I was on Pinterest today. I didn't scan the web during my down time between the classes I take at my university. No, it was in the middle of class as my prof talked about the good, the bad, and the ugly biases in opinion writing (see, I did pay attention) that I decided to take a gander at my Pinterest boards. Call me a bad student, I don't care, but due to my neglect of good class time, I found this article stating five beautiful words for writers. As an English major and journalism minor, I find the origin of words, the way they are created, and the versatility of words in different languages fascinating. I am a linguistics and etymology nerd, I admit it. So, despite what you may think about me attempting to sound smart or pretentious by choosing the word "scripturient" for the title of my blog, I chose the word because I fell in love with it. How unique is it that there is a word that describes the consuming passion to write, something I have had my entire literate life? The fact that this word exists excites me way too much, and herein I realize I am the ultimate English nerd. You know what, though? I'm okay with that.

--Katie