tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4981675859094236917.post7408443820881416949..comments2010-12-04T14:13:50.110-05:00Comments on Never a Barbie: Dumping BarbieBarbara Simpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326229120081303320noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4981675859094236917.post-1307855399651328692010-05-24T08:58:21.878-04:002010-05-24T08:58:21.878-04:00I love the prompt.
I think playing with Barbie di...I love the prompt.<br /><br />I think playing with Barbie did have a lot to do with storytelling. That's what I did--I narrated her life while I played, whether I was alone or playing with friends.Barbara Simpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14326229120081303320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4981675859094236917.post-55999276389105817332010-05-23T13:57:48.833-04:002010-05-23T13:57:48.833-04:00Barbara, This piece just throbs with pure instinct...Barbara, This piece just throbs with pure instinct. I like the stream-of-consciousness techniques you used to unfold the story and conversation. I particularly liked the line "...someone whose concern was uncomplicated by hunger or annoyance or guilt." Wow! Not too many of those people in our lives, are there? <br /><br />I too shared the narrator's angst at not being done wanting to play with the Barbies and not having others know I still wanted to. Do you think it was the writer in us? We wanted to make stories with them? I don't know, but mine disappeared too. My mother gave them to a younger cousin when I went off to college. I think she asked me first, but when I hesitated, she prodded. A few years ago I wrote my cousin and asked for them back, and so got some things returned, particularly outfits my mother had sewn, which meant at least as much as the dolls.<br /><br />This reminds me of a prompt I used in a writing group that was very successful: What one lost thing from your childhood would you most like to find and why? Beautiful stories! I think that group that day felt closer to each other after sharing their responses to that prompt than any other time I've facilitated.Susan Clark Lawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528703215363574466noreply@blogger.com