Visual Writing Prompt: It’s Us Against the World

Little Kid Keepsake

“Little” was the twenty-fifth prompt for #augustbreak2014, and it was a stumper at first, as I’ve a zillion little things to choose from, but none with anything but the most obvious meaning of little. Then I looked down at my desk, and there’s the tile and popsicle stick trivet my son made for me in kindergarten (or possibly nursery school, one or the other). It’s classic little kid craft stuff. And thus I chose it for “little.”

It’s nearly thirty years old, and lost a coup...