
“You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 today and we don’t know where the hell she is.”
~ Ellen DeGeneres

“You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 today and we don’t know where the hell she is.”
~ Ellen DeGeneres

(Image courtesy of Colleen Gleason’s blog)
Fantasy. It is what the Once Upon a Time Challenge is all about. Fantasy in its many shapes and forms. Whether you read fantasy on a regular basis or not, there is one fantasy that almost all of us share every year: the fantasy that this will be the year that we get off our butts, keep those New Year’s resolutions, and get in shape. If you’re like me, the approaching years spell doom if change does not occur now. So I’m proposing an additional challenge to go along with our current reading challenge. What I am proposing is the 10:4 Challenge.

“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
Of cabbages–and kings…
~Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and The Carpenter
…of mirrormasks, and poppets, of free books and of dreams…
Continue reading Poppet Wonderland

“I ain’t lost my head”
~Hoggle, Labyrinth
Due to unforseen techincal difficulties on what will be a really cool Friday Favorite, FF will be delayed. Sorry for any dismay this may cause. To entertain yourselves until the situation changes, I give you the following:

I don’t often do Thursday Thirteens, but I had so much fun doing yesterday’s post that I thought I would do one today. My Once Upon a Time related Thursday Thirteen is:
Thirteen of My Favorite Fantasy Films
In no particular order, they are: