by amiemccracken | Mar 6, 2012 | photography
Albert and I went home to Colorado for an entire month in January. We planned two weeks of snowboarding with our German friends, Jule and Bastian, and then found out that Albert’s sister was getting married just two weeks later. So we stayed. And what a month it...
by amiemccracken | Mar 1, 2012 | book review, books, reading
Ape House by Sara Gruen is about bonobos, a language specialist working with the bonobos, and a reporter, John. They’re all interconnected, but they all have separate stories. The bonobos are attacked and sold out from under Isabel, their caretaker and...
by amiemccracken | Feb 29, 2012 | reading, writing
If you would like to post a story in March for my Original Fairy Tales Challenge (reading an original fairy tale and then writing your own version of it or a blog post about it), I will be posting my story on March 8th. So you have just over a week to get it ready....
by amiemccracken | Feb 28, 2012 | writing
We did a lot of snowboarding in Colorado. I love it there.She feels the wind biting her cheeks; her knees are shaking. Why would she ever agree to do this? She wanted to show him that she was tough, but she’s terrified. She’s never been snowboarding before. He puts...
by amiemccracken | Feb 23, 2012 | reading, story, writing
Peter Pan and Wendy Kiss – monacoFinding Neverland is a wonderful movie. Not only does it capture J.M. Barrie’s imagination (him walking into a bedroom that is really an African plain…) but it pulls lines directly from Peter Pan. I’m kind of in...
