Staircase Wit

Madge Bettany, just 24, and her twin, Dick, have been responsible for their younger sister, Joey, since their parents died. Dick is home on...

For the L.M. Montgomery Cooking Challenge , I decided to make Chocolate Caramels :  But Anne could not eat. In vain she nibbled at the bread...

Three phone calls take over the Ray household in this chapter!   First, Jerry who does not spend enough time at Cox Military to justify all...

Chapter 11, Mrs. Poppy’s Party Preparing for Christmas is big in the Ray household and there are many secrets in the mix.  Everyone is ...

Chapter 10, Christmas Shopping Wondering about her story, Flossie’s Accident (which I keep wanting to call Flossie’s Head – I think th...

Time for another round of Bookshelf Traveling in Insane Times which is being hosted by Judith at Reader in the Wilderness .   The idea is ...

The   1930 Club  is a meme started by Simon from  Stuck in a Book  and Karen from  Kaggsy's Book Ramblings  that explores a specific yea...

The 1965 Club  is a meme in which two prolific bloggers, Simon from  Stuck in a Book  and Karen from  Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings , promo...

Saturday we woke up early and had tea and toast at the Arriva Hotel before taking an Uber to Liverpool Street Station (had I been in a taxi ...

Title : All-of-a-Kind Family Author : Sydney Taylor Publication : Dell paperback, originally published in 1951. I was inspired to reread ...

Julia’s Career – Although Julia was dropped by the Epsilon Iotas, the sorority relented and voted her in at the last minute. Her talent (sh...

Junior year is coming to a close, and a Deep Valley tradition is the Junior-Senior Banquet.  You will recall that Betsy was disappointed no...

A whole year of botany? Shouldn’t they have been taking biology or chemistry? Perhaps the Deep Valley School Board had issues with creationi...

Even though I know Betsy deserves it, I suffer for her when the bolts from the blue start coming:  first, she and the other Okto Deltas are...

Even after Betsy Ray vows to make Okto Delta more serious it was uphill work. The girls’ activities become more and more frivolous, and Wino...

I will get back to sororities shortly but last week when I was looking for pictures of University of Minnesota buildings that Julia and Bet...

It is time for Betsy Ray’s older sister, Julia, to depart on her first step towards the Great World – her freshman year at the University ...

The consensus from the Betsy-Tacy listserv seems to be that you don’t want to do high school again. I am telling you, it would be more fun t...

Chapter 1 - As I take the baton for the Betsy-Tacy listserv's discussion of Betsy Was a Junior , I ask you to imagine it is the end of ...

You may not be surprised to hear I own four copies of Anne of Green Gables . One, my original copy and favorite, is missing – I think it is ...