Dear Stationary Aisle at CVS,
I still feel a shiver of excitement when it’s time to shop for my kids’ school supplies, but nothing, and I mean NOTHING, compares to the dizzy joy I felt standing and browsing your stacks of notebooks and Trapper Keepers. Unicorns. Kittens. Rainbows. Paint splatters. Abstract designs. Solid colors. Don’t even get me started on the Lisa Frank designs. Always college rule. Always.
No matter what the school year was going to bring and what kind of mayhem my notebooks were going to experience, you were a happy and safe place for me, grounded in the hope of clean start, year after year.
-e.