Is there something in your life that you have always wanted to do, but haven't done so, yet? ~Family History Tuesday~



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Who wants to write a book?

I do!

and this year I did take one step towards it.  I joined NaNoWriMo. I didn't complete it, but I did write about 2,000 words of a story that's been living in my head for about 10 years now.

Writing a whole novel seems like a daunting task, but I just might churn one out one day.  It may not be published, but it will be MY book!

{Family History Story prompts available at designzbydede}

Describe your favorite character from a book, a movie or televison ~Family History Tuesday~

I was in the 5th grade when we were assigned to read Island of the Blue Dolphins.  Boy, I just LIVED this story!  I wanted to be Karana.

Karana is a young girl who is left alone on her island home, along with her little brother.  In order to survive she must begin to make spears, hunt and she even makes a shelter out of whale bones. Along the way she befriends the leader of the wild pack of dogs.

I was in love with the solitude, nature, animals and resourcefulness Karana learns as she becomes self-sufficient.  I longed to walk the beach (are you beginning to see a theme here in my life?) and commune with the flora and fauna and animal friends all around.

And you know what made reading this book even better?  It is based on a true story! A young girl was stranded on an island off the California coast for 18 years! She was discovered in 1853. Does that not make you have goosebumps?

Who is your favorite character?

{Family History Tuesday prompts found at designzbydede}

1,000 days

I just finished a book by Shannon Hale called "Book of a Thousand Days".  It's about a princess who refuses to marry the man her father wants her to marry. As her punishment she, along with her maid, are banished to live in a tower for 7 years. The guards around the tower are ordered to put an arrow through her if she escapes. 

The book is a journal, written by the maid who begins at "Day 1".

The title refers to a saying that the mother of the maid has told her:

"Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul."

Guess what? ...two weeks after I glimpsed my fiance's soul, I married him.