It Was A Dark and Stormy Night…

“It was a dark and stormy night.” Do these words sound familiar? This opening line was repeatedly hammered out on a typewriter by Charlie Brown’s canine companion, Snoopy. The line appeared for the first time in Schultz’s comic strip Peanuts in 1965. Schultz admits he used the line because it was commonly viewed as theContinue reading “It Was A Dark and Stormy Night…”

I Took the Bait.

When did you fall in love with reading? As a young girl in elementary school, I fell in love with reading in the fourth grade. Unbeknownst to me, the groundwork for my affliction was laid down a few years before I arrived in Mrs. Naugle’s classroom. Eight years before I became her student, our localContinue reading “I Took the Bait.”