several years back, when i moved to augusta, georgia, i remember being asked by several people (all women, as i am sure you might have guessed) if i "scrapbooked." after about the fourth or fifth time, i finally asked if scrapbooking was really a verb. this attitude won't get you a lot of friends - particularly in augusta and probably in the south in general. frankly though, i don't need any friends whose sole purpose in life is to make me feel completely inadequate because i have collected my pictures in plain-old albums or worse, in boxes full of envelopes full of pictures or perhaps worse than that - just digital pictures on my computer.
naturally, i have tried to analyze why i am unable to scrapbook. i decided that it comes down to this one thing - i am not able to use gratuitous exclamation points. as you know, i don't even like capital letters - i just can't imagine trying to put that much feeling into a caption. there would be so much pressure. for instance, i am incapable of saying things like "Emma having her Favorite Summer Treat: Ice Cream!" is it really emma's favorite treat? and what if the picture was actually taken in late spring? do all of the letters need to be capitalized or just the important ones? again, too much pressure and thought.
or maybe i can't scrapbook because i am not artsy - or craftsy. and i have never been good at sticker-placement. and like my friend mary ann, i just can't cut my pictures into heart shapes. it just seems wrong. and so, i continue a complete disservice to my children (and other family and friends) by merely collecting their photos in my uncreative, stickerless, captionless, heartless, digital/virtual manner and shamefully, i still think of a noun when i hear the word scrapbook.
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