Whoa

That's a real shocker, Jennifer. You've got quite a smack at the end. I love it.

It's time for me to leave but I want to get this down before I go so I'm just going to type.

April 13--Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh, Battle with the Dragon. Maren loved it when her class went on a field trip to the Museum. Mrs. Alberts always had a purpose for those trips. she didn't believe in just running off for an afternoon out of class. Today's trip she tied to their English class. She parked group of three or four students in front of a painting or sculpture with instructions for them to make up a story about it. Maren liked the bright colors and all of the activity in her painting. The kids with her were complaining about the assignment and two boys were having a pencil sword fight. She ignored them. She looked at the knight on horseback holding his sword and shield, and at the big red dragon with its seven heads and lashing tail, and was almost ready to begin when she noticed the princess in the box. It almost looked like she in a cage. Why was she in there instead of helping the knight slay the dragon? Maren decided she'd write about a princess who fought dragons with the prince, and so she began, "Once upon a time in a kingdom called Equality..."

Gotta run. Later, dudes and dudettes.
--Barbara