teenage 1 August 2010
Joyce of Embra points out that playing the penny falls at the arcade probably beats putting money in a machine and ending up 13 years old and having to go through puberty again a la Tom Hanks in the movie BIG. True. But here’s the kicker – I am living the life of a 13 year old a lot of these days. Number One is that I might as well have been 13 in that arcade the other day as playing the penny falls was one of my favourite things to do then (always loved it well above the one armed bandits, or dodgems, etc) and the fact that it still is probably tells you that in my head I am a lot younger most of the time than I look all of the time. Also, I am writing a novel for teenage girls right now and the protagonist Jenny Q is 13 and I am having great fun and enormous cringing putting in things I still feel that tally with how I felt when I was that age physically…I don’t seem to have come very far…though that’s not necessarily a bad thing, of course.
