Let's say babies are blank slates. The slates come in different sizes and colors, but the writing is only after the wrapping comes off. Where do you come from, really? What shaped you? Whether it was nature or nurture, what got into your young bones and shaped them? Tell me about your hometown. Your first best friend. Tell me the fairytale that rocked your soul. What's your origin?
Peter at PeterDeWolf.com
"Is it because Barney has one on 'How I Met Your Mother'?"
"Can you use it to meet girls?
"Have you turned fruit?"
To which I reply: "Yes." "Yes." "I had one first." "I guess." "Not that I'm aware of."
(Man, I hope that I answered those in the right order.)
Amanda at LittleWhiteLiar.Typepad.com
...I used to say I was born on the bayou. I liked the image that conjured
up: some voodoo baby with twigs in her curly hair, sweat-shiny and
wicked-charming, naked in the southern humidity...
Kelsi at ThisCouldTakeAwhile.Blogspot.com
...the comfort of the coffee, and the solitude of the walk, the grim
beauty of the pacific ocean and the quaintness of the town all live in
the core of me to express how it is that, at the base of it all, i
really feel the world should be...
Meg at PuritanJamShort.Blogspot.com
...We were pretty poor, apparently, but I didn't learn that until I was
much older. Sometimes, when I talk to people about our vegetable
gardens in the side yard, our wee pumpkin patches, our weeklong living
room forts and extended backyard camp outs, people look at me like I
grew up in a different decade...
Chavie at hicsuntdracones.blogspot.com
...Only after talking at length with me does the lilt in my voice come
out, reminiscent of early Woody Allen. It is hard to explain why it is
I identify so strongly with a city I left behind in my adolescence -
over a decade ago....
Adrian at FearofLanding.Blogspot.com
...The timing worked out and I was on the last flight out, with my mom, in
a cardboard carrying box. This would be the beginning of my life of
cramped, cost-effective traveling...
Jamelah at Jamelah.net
...One of my longest long-standing jokes is that I am the only Arab
redneck you will ever meet. Being an Arab redneck means that I talk a
lot and I don’t like wearing shoes. In case you were wondering...
Lesley at HowNowWit.Blogspot.com
...I am, therefore, not the product of any
hometown. And I fear sometimes that the ugly secret behind being from
everywhere is that where I’m actually from is…well, nowhere...
Liz at TheLFactor.Typepad.com
...I come from traditional parents. Republicans. Don't fight in front of
the kids. Go out to dinner 3 nights a week because marriage comes
before children. Because I said so, that's why...
