I'm A Nerd

Growing up, I was a huge nerd. Not in the "Napoleon Dynamite" way but in a shy, bookworm kind of way. I didn't wear a pocket protector or anything like that, but I did dress funny (not by choice...just wore what was available to me as a kid). I guess that makes my parents the nerds! My brother called me nerd all the time because I was never without a book to read (and I read fast too).

I read because it took me away from my dysfunctional home life. I would get so engrossed in a book that the world around me disappeared. Parents fighting with each other or with my siblings was sent into the background. That love of reading never disappeared. If you click on the link at the top, you'll see all the books I've read over the past years. There were more, but I didn't keep track of the ones from the library until recently.

Does that still make me a nerd? I still don't wear a pocket protector (nowadays, you just need amodex to get ink stains out anyway), but I'll bet you my brother would still refer to me as a nerd or bookworm. My husband refers to me as "Booker T" (as in Booker T. Worm).