A Room of Her Own

I bet you can't tell what this picture is of:

To be completely honest with you, I couldn't either. You see, my daughter Paige snapped this picture with my camera while I wasn't looking. She giggled when I downloaded it to my computer.

"It's my secret spot, Mom," she finally explained.

And if you look you'll see her notebook there in the picture, along with her pen.

In the her essay "A Room of One's Own," Virginia Woolf put forth her message that a woman needs two things in order to have the freedom to create: a fixed income, and a room of her own.

Paige has the fixed income--for now Mom's and Dad's income will suffice. Now she has found a room of her own. She climbs on top of the fridge with her notebook and pen and writes, spinning stories for hours.

She has found a bit of creative freedom. I hope she continues working on her talent, her passion. I guess it is how they say: like mother, like daughter.