A to Z Blogging Challenge

April Accountability Check-In

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“Tra-la! It’s May!” (I promise I won’t sing the whole song for you. Not on my blog, anyway. I can guarantee I’ll be singing it at home though, because I am very glad it’s May.) (If you want to hear the song in its entirety, go to iTunes and download the original Broadway recording of Julie Andrews singing The Lusty Month of May from the Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot. Accept no substitutes. It must be the original Broadway version.) Erik, this might not be the best song for you, not just yet. And may I say Phew! April is over! I have now learned that it is not particularly wise to take on too many challenges in one month. I was quite successful in all of them but they were a bit much. (Yes, all FOUR of them. That is too many for one month. You may quote me on that.) Let’s take a look at what I accomplished in April, and what lies ahead in May, shall we? Just click the magic words…

M is for… Musicals, Mousical, and More!

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It’s probably no surprise at all to readers who know me even slightly through this blog or my previous blog that I love musicals. The Sound of Music. Camelot. My Fair Lady. Annie Get Your Gun. The Music Man. Mame. Fiddler on the Roof. I also love a middle-grade novel called The Great American Mousical, by Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton. The idea for Mousical came to Julie one day when she was in her backstage dressing room before a performance. A mouse skittered across the floor, and Julie started thinking about all the mice that must inhabit the lower reaches of an old theatre — and she asked herself, “I wonder if they have a theatre, and put on plays of their own?” The Great American Mousical is how Julie and her daughter Emma answered that question. But wait! There’s more!

Do You Know your A B Cs? A to Z Blogging Challenge is coming up!

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A B C D E F G…  If you know your ABCs, perhaps you’d like to join me in April in the A to Z Blogging Challenge. Beginning April 1st, hundreds of people will be blogging daily all that month (except for Sundays after the 1st) using the letters of the alphabet as springboards for their creativity. I will be blogging about the arts and writing and the connections therein, and already have most of the letters planned. I will do my best to work the alphabetic theme into my normal blogging categories on the appropriate days. “X” on a Perfect Picture Book Friday in Spotlight Week might prove a challenge. However, I can just about hear what my Spotlight focus for April would say about challenges, so I’m (almost) sure I’ll come up with something. Otherwise, there might be two posts on X day. To read more about the A to Z Challenge, you can check out this link. You can also get to the A to Z blog by clicking the logo badge down there in my sidebar. Sign up starts Monday, January 30, 2012. Blogging for the challenge starts with A on April 1st. (But many people will be writing posts ahead of time and scheduling them.) A B C D E F G — hope you’ll sing this song with me!

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