To me, the poem “The Dong with the Luminous Nose” by Edward Lear, is a rather intriguing story. It’s not one of those stories when the prince (the Dong) finds his princess (the Jumbly girl), gets married and lives happily-ever-after. The Dong has lost his Jumbly Girl when she went back to sea in the sieve Read more…
The Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs has been quite a marvelous experience for one of my age to read. Right from the beginning you cannot but just help imagining the scenario as if you were Johnny Dixon himself. Bellairs creates very thorough and thought-out characters, most significantly Professor Childermass. At first, the professor just seems like an average grumpy old man Read more…
Inside Welty’s mind: a vision for fiction “Greater than scene, I came to see, is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being who will never be confined in any frame.” ~Eudora Welty The best stories are created when a character is not in a stereotypical Read more…
The Amazing Underground Owl The burrowing owl has large lemon-lime eyes with alternating brown and off-white feathers. The burrowing owls prefer to live in plain, flat grasslands for they can catch their prey which are insects, rodents, and small lizards; they also use the grasslands to hide from predators such as coyotes, great horned owls… Read more…
Automobiles are more than just cars Automobiles have come a long way and have a storied history that leads to today. Nowadays, there are automobiles ranging from sports cars, to huge RVs, to models of electric powered, self-driving cars, along with an infinite amount of styles. Technically, the first real automobile, in 1885, was invented Read more…
Guy de Maupassant: Ironically Disturbing Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant was a prolific French writer of the mid-to-late 1800s writing some 300 short stories, six novels, three travelogues, and one volume of verse (a book of poetry). He published his first story, “Boule de Suif” or “Ball of Fat” in 1880 and it is Read more…
A Two In One Day “It’s going to be a white Christmas!” exclaimed Annie’s little sister. Annie Stone and her family, which consisted of her parents, her older brother, her two younger twin sisters and her baby brother, had just moved from Florida to Michigan. “Yes, our first white Christmas!” said Mrs. Stone. Outside their Read more…
Zayd is reading “The Wind in the Willows” and here adds (from Ratty’s eyes) more rapturous devotion to the best season for a water rat: summer of course! Ratty’s poem The summer is bright, just like you my friend O, summer tell us what flora you send The purple loosestrife bright with spikes Then come Read more…
The Silver Train Robbery Cast: Jimmy: a miner Mitch: another miner Strike Leader Barkeep Various railroad employees and guards The Miner’s Strike of 1908 has just been successfully completed, and the boss of the strike (Strike Leader) has been celebrating with his men; barrels of booze and bottles of spirits lay all about. The crooked Read more…
Have you ever heard of a megamouth shark? Well, if you haven’t today is your lucky day! You get to learn about megamouth sharks! Imagine you wake up, get out of bed, and stand on a scale and find that you weigh like 2,500 lbs, and then, going to the bathroom and looking in the Read more…
