Eddy Laughter

I grew up going to a Quaker school, and I was one of the only three actually Quaker kids there.

My dad was Quaker, so is Quaker still.

And I thought that made me an expert.

Whenever it came up in class, I was like, inner light, I know all about that.

I've gotcha.

And I was in like fourth grade, by the way.

And I was going to...

Quaker meeting for worship every Sunday because my dad wanted me to.

But I would just kind of sit downstairs and doodle while our parents were in worship.

And that was just what would happen on Sundays.

And my mom is Jewish.

And my connection to that side of my family is even foggier and more distant.

I would just visit my family for the holidays and get really confused about how I knew everybody.

And then I would come back and then go to school the next day.

And weirdly, a lot of kids at my Quaker meeting were also this combination of Quaker and Jewish, and we like to call ourselves Quakeish.

And that was the extent of our analysis of that.

And if I'm being totally honest, all I wanted to do when I was little was pretend to be a dragon with my friends.

So religion is not pretending to be a dragon, so it was thus not high on my list of priorities then.

But as I got older, it eventually was no longer cool to pretend to be a dragon and it wasn't cool to really talk about religion either.

I got into middle school and everything got more awkward and I got less friends and I got really distant from religion.