Dipping Even Farther into Nostalgia–the Typewriter!

I was born wanting to write. Or at least I was born with my head full of stories. (My elementary school teachers used to write on my report card in the category then called deportment, “Marion dreams.” It was not a compliment.) I didn’t begin actually putting words on the page, though, until I was released from the drudgery of pencil on paper by learning to type.

What magic! It was like someone who struggles to walk acquiring wings!

The first typewriter I ever owned was a 1956 manual portable S...