I Enjoy Writing For Third And Fourth

My Favorite Books Are A Constantly Changing List, But One Favorite Has Remained Constant: The Dictionary. Is The Word I Want To Use Spelled Practice Or Practise? The Dictionary Knows. The Dictionary Also Slows Down My Writing Because It Is Such Interesting Reading That I Am Distracted.

I Have Lovely Memories Of Los Angeles In The 1930s. I Came Down To Live With My Mother's Cousin And They Invited Me To Come And Go To Junior College For A Year.

In My Grammar School Years Back In The 1920s I Used My Ten-cents-a-week Allowance For Saturday Matinees Of Douglas Fairbanks Movies. All That Swashbuckling And Leaping About In The Midst Of The Sails Of Ships!

I Am Not A Pest," Ramona Quimby Told Her Big Sister Beezus.

One Rainy Sunday When I Was In The Third Grade, I Picked Up A Book To Look At The Pictures And Discovered That Even Though I Did Not Want To, I Was Reading. I Have Been A Reader Ever Since.