Journey into My Imagination
Why don’t you two go to play together?” my mother said, and she smiled at me. It was such a hopeful smile. And then she looked at the other queen, who looked back at her, and then they smiled at us, and I found the whole thing kind of creepy because I didn’t know why there was so much smiling going on.
So once upon a time, there was me. My name is Gertrude – Gertrude. Horrible isn’t it? Well it’s not my fault; all of the good princess names were taken. What? Oh didn’t I mention that I was a princess? Yep, I am, well sort of anyway. I am a princess because my grandma is the queen and one day, when she gets bored, my dad will be the king. It’s kind of just a title, because you see, I am not very good at the whole princess thing.
When my kids were little, one of their favorite stories to read was: The Night Before the Night Before Christmas by by Natasha Wing (Author), Mike Lester (Illustrator). It's a cute little story about everything that can go wrong before Christmas doing exactly that (most of it spurred by the idea that mom gets sick and dad doesn't quite... Continue Reading →
Find a way to keep the magic alive for the people in your life - even adults need to laugh and play.
That Christmas, he brought a bag of chestnuts to my mom in the hopes that in all her culinary wisdom, would recreate this gastronomical memory.
I am not ignoring you I promise. Life - life has gotten in the way of creativity and writing and pretty much everything. This season is usually busy for me - not only Christmas, but in our house it is birthday season. Three our of four of us have birthdays between November and December and... Continue Reading →
You would never catch a cold from a witch’s school. That’s because at the very first sign of a cold, our moms and dads rush off to the Witch Doctor to get the Sneezle Solution.
Shannon McCauley - Author 