Lydia pulled me over to the table.

“Look at this,” she said and held up a worksheet that Grace had brought home from third grade, called “United States Regions.”

Lydia pointed to a spot on the U.S. map, on which Grace had labeled all 50 states, where she creatively spelled the name of one of them:

Pencilvanya

Kind of a mash of “pencil” and Uncle Vanya, no?

Which kinda reminds me… My friend James, who lives and works in that state, is blogging again.

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The image, “Pencil Dust,” is published by .klash on Flickr.