Barri Bryan Guest Blog - Learning to Spit

Learning to Spit

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple...
and learn to spit. -- From the poem Warning by Jenny Joseph

I grew up during the 30's in a small town in West Texas. I can't remember a
time that I didn't want to be a writer. By the time I was ten-years-old I was writing
poetry. When I was in the seventh grade I wrote a story that was published in the school
newspaper. During my teenage years I wrote several romantic stories. I never thought
about trying to have them published. That's p...