Posts Tagged ‘Pollyanna’
Pollyanna – the ACTUAL book
The original Pollyanna, written by Eleanor H. Porter, published by L.C. Page and Company, 53 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. 1913, eventually spewed 15 sequels. I’ve referred to it myself in prior posts, using the now-ubiquitous, sometimes sneered, definition of “a person characterized by irrepressible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything (Merriam-Webster still…
Read MoreGrabbing pebbles, clawing at the cliff edge
“A drowning man will clutch at a straw.” Thomas More, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (1534) I went over a cliff these last few days. Details are unimportant. And what let me float in mid-air, Wile E. Coyote faithful, were the many many handfuls of pretty pebbles I grabbed from that miserable rock as I lost…
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