Welcome to the blog of a rock climbing, home cooking, book loving, travel seeking, adventure oriented, story writing, super blessed, God loving wife and mom.
With a blog identity like mine, I have some explaining to do.
Reading. I have always loved reading. In fact, I was such a book nerd that once or twice, I was grounded from reading. It was the ultimate punishment!
At about age 8, I read the book Little Women, in one afternoon. It was a world I was sucked into and how I fell in love with Louisa May Alcott's books.
That next summer was a super fun summer. We had a pool and a little pool house that was to become club heaquarters for The Pickwick Club, which was of course inspired by Little Women. Originally the Pickwick Club came from a Charles Dickens novel. But, I happened upon the literary reference in Little Women. My mom being the English teacher who had begun teaching us literary terms like symbolism by the time I was in third grade... was more than ready to foster literary desires and help start the Pickwick Club.
We had a few meetings in the pool house. I couldn't really tell you what they were about, except that I was Augustus Snodgrass because that's who my favorite character in Little Women (Jo March - of course) was in their Pickwick Club. She chose to be Augustus Snodgrass because she was of a literary turn. So that part of the title represents my love for books and writing.
Amy March was Nathaniel Winkle, a character who was always attempting things he wasn't quite ready for... Sometimes, I am a bit like that in that my dreams are so big, it may be a while before I am ready to go at them or figure out how to make them a reality. :-) So that is how A. Snodgrass meets N. Winkle came to be the title of my blog.
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