Choose Your Own (Writing) Adventure

I guess it takes an official writing assignment to get me off my blogging butt.  Click here for the rules, and to see if there is a writing prompt you would like to follow.  I chose #2, the prompt to write a 26-line poem using all of the letters of the alphabet in order.  My current [...]

Silly Rabbit, Trixie’s Not Just for Kids

Sometimes you have the good fortune as a child to meet a fictional character that seems more like a friend than just a figment of the author’s imagination.  For me, that character was Trixie Belden.  I can still remember the first time I ‘met’ her.  I was 8 years old and shuffling though a box [...]

From The Baby-Sitters Club to Sweet Valley High: My Favorite Young Adult Books

The transition from pre-chick to mid-chick lit was relatively painless thanks to great books like these (shown with the covers as they were when I read them):

 
Sweet Valley High books were to my young adulthood what Trixie Belden books had been to my childhood– absolute reading bliss.  I followed the series obsessively faithfully until I had [...]

From Trixie to Taffy: My Favorite Childhood Books

I have been an avid reader ever since the 2nd grade when my teacher, Mrs. Morgan, dazzled and impressed me (and every other kid in class) with her animated readings of Charlotte’s Web, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, and the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series.  Like many, I devoured standards such as The Wonderful World of Oz, The Secret [...]

Showing My Age: 80’s Style- Vol. 2

I couldn’t resist one more walk down memory lane.
Scratch n Sniff stickers will always hold a place near and dear to my heart.  I spent many a Friday night selecting “grab bags” of stickers from the It’s a Small World store on the mall.  Those stickers promptly found a new home in one of my [...]

Showing My Age: 80’s Style- Vol. 1

Veggie Macabre posted recently about cheesy intro songs for 80’s sitcoms (videos included).  As I watched an insane amount of television in my childhood, these videos were a fun walk down memory lane.  While on memory lane, I thought I would reflect on a few more things I enjoyed back in the 80’s. 
Choose Your Own Adventure books.  This [...]

Iced In: A Literary Meme

While iced in, I created a book meme.  Feel free to copy if you like.
1. What is your favorite passage/line from a book?
 My favorite passage is from Pride and Prejudice.  Mr. Darcy has just proposed to Elizabeth, and insulted her family in the process:
Elizabeth felt herself growing more angry every moment; yet she tried to the [...]