May the fourth be with you today! *throws glitter in the air – Vadar gives me the stink eye* I’m sorry, Darth. Geez. So, how’s everyone’s May been coming so far? As promised, it’s Wednesday, so I’m going to share with you the book I’m currently reading; and I’m hoping you’ll comment below with what you are reading right now as well. If I havne’t shared before, our family has decided to homeschool our daughter and before making that decision,…
I had a successful April and coming down from that I was determined to keep my momentum going during the month of May, so I devised my own challenges. I’m going to be writing everyday (except Sundays – everyone needs a day off), with the hope that by the end of the month I have a novella put together that I can self-publish! I will be posting “sneak peeks” every Friday, so you can see what I’m working on and…
Why is it, so often in these stories that the woods symbolize something evil and scary? Why does the wolf have to be the bad guy? How many of you out there have ever dressed up as Little Red for Halloween? I think we should swap it up this morning. Let’s say we take Little Red and have her skipping down the path to her mother’s friend’s house because her mother has sent her there with a basket full of…
I don’t want to bash the brothers too hard, but when I realized that the stories that I was really fond of as a kid were in fact a not as “G rated” as I thought, I was a bit shocked. To say the least. It’s a little disturbing to realize that while Cinderella didn’t have mice, she did have birds that helped her and eventually plucked the eyes out of her step-sisters after her wedding to the prince. Or…
Fairy tales abound with mysterious creatures, but I think my favorite one is the dragon. I love how the dragon is portrayed as either a villain, like with Saint George, or as a hero like in Pete’s Dragon. Not too long ago, Build-A-Bear had Toothless that you could buy and I dragged my daughter over to get one. Turns out that I wanted one more than she did, but since I didn’t want to share we got two. True story….