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Choose Your Own Christmas Adventure – Part 1

Choose Your Own Christmas Adventure – Part 1

“Baby it’s cold outside…” Tis the holiday season and Merry Christmas prep to all!  If you’re like me, you don’t understand those friends that already have all their Christmas shopping done.  You’re calendar is filling up, and are frantically searching for original cookie ideas for your next get-together.  (I refuse to bring just sugar cookies this time.) So, while I’m in the shower this morning, humming along to Christmas carols on Pandora, an idea came to me; wouldn’t it be…

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What’s a Wampus?

What’s a Wampus?

The Wampus Cat tale is a little like someone blended a Dr. Seuss story with a dash of Stephen King and Tim Burton.  I felt the story was a little harsh to the woman who’s only crime was to be curious about what the men were talking about on their hunting trips.  If I had the magic hand to finish this story, after the medicine man punishes the woman “by binding her to her mountain cat skin,” I would have…

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Listen Here, Little Red

Listen Here, Little Red

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…

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The Gruesome Brothers Grimm

The Gruesome Brothers Grimm

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…

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If Pete Gets a Dragon, I Want One Too

If Pete Gets a Dragon, I Want One Too

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….

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