Wednesday, February 5, 2014

POPPY LOVE


My husband and I are halfway to a hundred. Or as I informed my college editing class, “I’ve lived half of a hundred years, and I have a lot to say.” And then I said some crazy crap about needing to take the grammar class so that I could say what I want to say more clearly. Then I failed my first grammar test.

Here’s what I’ve learned so far in Editing Essentials. Human beings can take the fun out of just about anything. Just. About. Anything.

“Hey there, Grog, I sure like those spear chuckers’ spears you’ve painted on that cave wall. Spear chuckers’, plural possessive, right?”

Not my husband, he’s a man who knows the value of simple pleasures and simple fun. He knows that grandchildren would rather play “Monster” with Poppy in a dark yard, than join a league of any kind, ever.

Monster is a simple game. The children run screaming in terror while Poppy sneaks up on them, leaps out at them, or hunts them down like a spear chucker stalking baby bison. The game is considered successful when one or more of the younger children are booger crying from fright, and the older children are so sweaty from running around they smell like baby mammoths.

It’s a little known fact that a romping good game of Monster can cripple Poppy up for two, even three days. But still he answers the call of “Play Monster, Poppy. Play Monster.”

And that’s why when our ten grandchildren walk in the front door they take one look at me and then ask, “Where’s Poppy?” Because he’s fun, that’s why. No quizzes. No tests. No note cards. No stupid, endless rules. Just fun. Just screaming, adrenalin pumping, heart stopping fun. And what’s wrong with that? Not a single thing.

Linda (Chopped Liver) Zern

Wow! Just Wow!



"All of my children love this book, but my daughter Phoenix was more drawn to it then the other two. She has a condition called PDD, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, it is on the Autism Spectrum.

I can't tell you why, many professionals we came across said it may be the simplicity, the fact that it wasn't so busy, because it was black and white, we don't know and maybe even the beautiful story of how it is told.

Nonetheless, Phoenix loves this book and as her mother that's all that matters, it was one of the first books she was able to describe what was happening, this book helped spark her love of reading and for that I will be forever grateful. Thank you Linda." (Paulette Reese Hart)
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