Dave Barry and Poetry

Here is my entry for that Dave Barry thing:

At my house, anything goes
Until one dark and stormy night
I tried to stop him with all my might
But still
the dog ate mother's toes

I could weep. The other poems are so funny and there are hundreds of them with the line - "the dog ate mother's toes."

Just finished the latest Harry Potter book. It was great! It was leaked that someone important was going to die - but she had you guessing to the very end who it would be - red herrings all over the place. I hope she is busily writing the next one!

Late Friday Five from Last Friday Because I was on Vacation

1. What were your favorite childhood stories?
Honey Bunch books - not printed anymore
Raggity Ann books
Little Lost Bobo - a reader from school


2. What books from your childhood would you like to share with [your] children?
All the fairy tales; and now including Harry Potter; and the books I read even though they may be "old fashioned."

3. Have you re-read any of those childhood stories and been surprised by anything?
No - but I have collected them from Ebay

4. How old were you when you first learned to read?
5 or 6, maybe 4

5. Do you remember the first 'grown-up' book you read?
Pride and Prejudice