Entries tagged with "how nancy drew saved my life"

Interviewed by The Collective

posted by srah on March 15, 2008 6:46 PM

Tags: blogging, books, christmas, holidays, how nancy drew saved my life, interviews, movies, musicals, ohio

It's been over a week since The Collective invited readers to be interviewed. I asked for questions then forgot about it for a while, but here - at last - are my answers to their questions. From Jennie!: 1) Why does Ohio insist on throwing more snow at us? Why? From heather! anne!: 2) What is the all-time best Christmas movie? The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. It makes me tear up every time I see Imogene taking her earrings out to look more like Mary, or hear that Leroy left the ham behind for the Baby Jesus. "It's a present....

The No. 1 Ladies' Hair-Teasin' and Veranda-Sittin' Agency

posted by srah on November 8, 2006 10:31 PM

Tags: books, how nancy drew saved my life, reviews, the no. 1 ladies' detective agency

She was a traditionally built lady, after all, and she did not have to worry about dress size, unlike those poor, neurotic people who were always looking in mirrors and thinking that they were too big. What was too big, anyway? Who was to tell another person what size they should be? It was a form of dictatorship, by the thin, and she was not having any of it. If these thin people became any more insistent, then the more generously sized people would just have to sit on them. Yes, that would teach them! Hah!- Morality for Beautiful Girls...