Fiction author Robin Brande talks about writing, reading, and other vital matters

I was listening to this great piece yesterday on NPR about the rejuvenile movement–adults returning to their childish roots. Rather than collecting toys to resell on eBay, these adults actually take them out of the box and play with them. They throw goofy theme parties, they go with adult friends to Disneyland, they settle marital arguments with Rock’em Sock’em Robots.

Back when I was practicing law, I spent a terrible year defending DUI clients (don’t worry, I wasn’t very good). I found comfort in those days by wearing a Kermit the Frog watch and keeping a slinky on my desk. (I also wore mini-skirts to all my sentencing hearings, but that was a different pathology.)

These days my work is play. I don’t need toys in my office because what I write is my toy. But I’ll still drop everything to go see a superhero movie, I love to read young adult books, and at parties I prefer the company of children over adults. Does that make me immature? Whatever. It makes me happy.

What toys do you still play with? Do you have a theme lunch box? Do you like costume parties and trips to Disneyland?

What are you doing to please your kiddish side while you’re out there pretending to be an adult?

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Posted on Wednesday, July 12th, 2006 at 7:16 am under Guilty Pleasures, Life . Subscribe to responses: RSS 2.0 Comment Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.