Doing Time

“How do you do time?” an 8th grade boy recently asked me during a writing workshop.

I was working with his class earlier this week in a beautiful corner of the world where time seems to stand still. 

No other student had ever asked me that question, although it’s an important story element often addressed in adult writing workshops.

How do you explain to a child that time is just the way we organize change, and that your perception of time will constantly change as you change and grow and reach milestones . . . and then pass those milestones.

For example:

 What makes me feel YOUNG?
Coasting down a hill on my bike.

Letting my mom make my breakfast