Part of my assignment for the new Kids On Wheels magazine is writing serial fiction. I haven't written fiction in many years, and when I did, it was for teenagers; the KOW audience is 8-12 years old. I'm quietly freaking out, wondering how on earth I'm going to meet this challenge. I know I'll come up with something, but will it be anything anyone would ever want to read? To start my mind working along age-appropriate lines, I've been re-familiarizing myself with classic books for the reading level. I chose five: The Phantom Tollboth by Norton Juster, A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle (one of my favorites when I was that age), the incomparable Harriet The Spy by Louise Fitzhugh, From The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg, and the modern classic Holes by Louis Sachar. Everyone should read Holes , it is brilliant. It was also make into an excellent movie, with a screenplay written, thank goodness, by the author. All this r...
Sorry--the above post was mine--but I needed spell check and didn't have it. My bad. Anyways...
ReplyDeleteNot a comment about the couch (although I miss it) or even the Couch blog (envious of the Blogger support!!!), but I was just down in Port Credit, and wanted to tell you. It is much nicer than I remember it, as most things are in the GTA. I was a mere teen whenI lived here, and hated everything and almost everyone. I think that you'll like it a bunch. It is one part of Mississauga that has eluded the suburban touch.
Hey, thanks for this Andy! You coulda left the typos in. :-)
ReplyDeleteWe also really like Port Credit, for just that reason. The funny thing is, we stumbled on it by accident on our first trip up to Toronto, and got the (incorrect) impression that all the suburbs were cute little towns like that. After looking around more, and seeing how unique Port Credit is, we really wanted to live there.
Plus it's so close to downtown, and has decent public transit to Toronto, compared to most places in Mississauga.
We can't believe how lucky we were to find this house so easily.
I was a mere teen whenI lived here, and hated everything and almost everyone.
You will appreciate that when I was growing up in the NYC suburbs, my theme song was "...it's a town for losers, I'm pulling outta here to win..."
You saw a great show, eh? Bruce never disappoints.
Thanks for stopping by to tell me this.
RE The Daily Show, and the Blogger Blog Of Note ...
ReplyDeleteJust goes to show: Jon Stewart has finally made it. Big time.
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Can't get any bigger than Blogger! :)
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