My Story
Walter, Paulu

>>PAUL: My name is Paul Walter and I am from the Fox Valley Writing Project in Wisconsin and I teach seventh grade English and social studies in Singer, Wisconsin. I don't have really an outlandish story or anything over the top but I just remember as a child trips to the library with my mom picking up books, I forget what the hippo's names were but there were two hippos that really stood out and there's two books that I always got a good kick out of and one book in particular though called "Uncle Timothy's Tribute" it was a book about this car that the family would go on trips with. I remember the grandmother would always say, "Bless my buttons!" as an exclamatory. I just thought that was a stitch as a kid and that's something that still sticks with me to this day. Then besides just instilling the love of reading the fact that she would sit down with me at the typewriter and type out my stories and as a child to the 80's I remember stories about Super Dog trying to collect the bombs that Reagan and the Russians were dropping and everything else, without really judging the writing she just went with whatever I have and still have some of those stories archived. Now I do some of the same kinds of things with my daughter except we get on the computer versus the typewriter and she tells me the story and we go from there and record a couple pictures and that's something that we will be able to hold onto and hopefully she'll be sharing in some kind of medium later on in life.