totally a prodigy

Just looking through some old files and home and found this newspaper article I illustrated when I was ten. Suddenly it was obvious to me, like a moth caught fluttering between my glasses and my eyes: Was I a child prodigy?

I was a child, and I did things and kept doing them for a long time, forever, until there was a story, and this, found in some old files, a beginning. An omen. An early dot in a line of dots that now form a picture. Yes, yes.

Someday the same thing may happen with, for example, picking my nose. What if I'm 46 years old and I'm picking my nose all the time, I have a career as a professional nose picker. And I look through an old photo album and I see myself, age 3 (3!!!) picking my nose. 

Suddenly everything would fall into place. I've been doing this my whole life. I started picking my nose when I was 3 -- maybe even earlier, who knows. Probably. It's always just come so naturally to me. Everything would make sense. Yes, yes.

Prodigy. 

Games I Played As A Girl

I dug holes on a beach by myself. 

I spied on the cats and took copious notes. 

I built a spaceship in the attic.

I went to space. My son went to space. 

I gave interviews as both mother and son. 

I co-founded a secret organization on the hillside by the powerlines. 

I was a rabbit in the snow. 

I was a Persian cat on a Persian rug. 

I was a mouse in an airport. 

I locked my daughter in my mansion’s cupboard when my gentleman suitor was visiting. 

I peddled scrap parts from a junk yard with my buddy Jim. 

I was a destitute pigshit farmer on a muddy beach. 

I was an extremely obese Hispanic woman owning an Italian restaurant. 

I headed an illegal pot growing operation. I also smuggled cocaine. 

I led witch-hunts. 

I invented a language. 

I went back in time, kidnapped and cryogenically froze famous historical figures.

My best friend was Count Dracula. 

I had a magic remote control that could grant wishes. 

I held funerals for bugs I found deceased in spiderwebs. 

I narrated the life of an invisible giant who inhabited our world, unseen by everyone else. 

I was on a game show where girlscouts are set in cutthroat competitions against each other. 

I was a zookeeper. 

I was an emergency veterinarian. 

I was a pokemon trainer. 

I danced with emus. 

I spoke with roosters.

I interviewed my dalmation on a talk show.