My youngest son, Justin, is third grader and an avid reader.  Actually he is a devourer of books.  Until this year, though, he hasn’t had cause to do much writing.  Well, his teacher, Mrs. Brown, has changed that.

Below is the text from one of Justin’s recent assignments.  He was to write a story using some of the words from his weekly spelling list and this is what he created (spelling words underlined):

Once I did not know what to do.  I didn’t know where I was for that long while. There was a person with a long whip.  That wasn’t a very warm welcome. I would have weeped if it wasn’t for something that caught my eye.

I think this definitely qualifies Justin as the poet laureate of the Lowder clan, puts his hat in the ring for poet laureate of North Carolina and, my apologies to Billy the Blogging Poet, but I think his days as the "blogging poet laureate" may be numbered!