Email Forwards Fun!

I have received many email forwards, then I have forwarded them to people on "my list". I love these touching, warm, funny emails. I started saving them on my computer, so I would never lose them. I decided to create a blog to hold all these email forwards, so others can enjoy them and so I can easily refer to them when I want. I hope people who love email forwards as much as I do, or like reading funny and inspirational readings will find this site and share it with others.

Sunday, September 1, 2024

She Didn't Like To Read . . . So She Became An Author!

At six years old, little Beverly was put on academic probation after first grade. Her biggest problem was reading. The assigned books were all boring educational stories about polite children. It was thanks to a school librarian's friendly encouragement that the girl finally liked to read.

After college, Beverly began working as a children’s librarian. She still found children's books boring. Dick and Jane weren't at all like lively, curious, funny, angry, unruly real kids.

So Beverly Cleary became an author herself. She wrote Ramona the Pest, Henry Huggins, Ribsy, The Mouse and the Motorcycle --more than 40 books in all. Her books won dozens of awards, sold more than 90 million copies, and are still beloved today.

Not bad for the little girl who didn't like to read.

Cleary as a senior at the University of California, Berkeley, 1938

Find Beverly Cleary on Wikipedia

Cleary in 1971

She married Clarence Cleary in 1940

Cleary’s husband died in 2004.

She celebrated her 100th birthday on April 12, 2016.

On March 25, 2021, Cleary died at her retirement home in

Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, aged 104.

Below from the website - BookSeriesInOrder.com

Beverly Cleary Books In Publishing Order

Henry Huggins Series
Henry Huggins(1950)
Henry and Beezus(1952)
Henry and Ribsy(1953)
Henry and the Paper Route(1957)
Henry and the Clubhouse(1962)
Ribsy(1964)

Ellen & Otis Series
Ellen Tebbits(1951)
Otis Spofford(1953)

Ramona Quimby Series
Beezus and Ramona(1955)
Ramona the Pest(1968)
Ramona the Brave(1975)
Ramona and Her Father(1977)
Ramona and Her Mother(1979)
Ramona Quimby, Age 8(1981)
Ramona Forever(1984)
Ramona's World(1999)

Ramona Quimby Non-Fiction Books
The Beezus and Ramona Diary(1986)
Just for Me(2013)

First Love Series
Fifteen(1956)
The Luckiest Girl(1958)
Jean and Johnny(1959)
Sister of the Bride(1963)

Ralph S. Mouse Series
The Mouse and the Motorcycle(1965)
Runaway Ralph(1970)
Ralph S. Mouse(1982)

Leigh Botts Series
Dear Mr. Henshaw(1983)
Strider(1991)

Standalone Novels
Beaver and Wally(1961)
Emily's Runaway Imagination(1961)
Here's Beaver!(1961)
Ribsy and the P.T.A.(1963)
Mitch and Amy(1967)
Socks(1973)
Leave It to Beaver(1978)
Young Love(1982)
Lucky Chuck(1984)
Here Come The Twins(1989)
The Twins Again(1989)
Mouse House Trio(1989)
Muggie Maggie(1990)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Two Times the Fun(2005)

Publication Order of Picture Books
The Hullabaloo ABC(1960)
The Real Hole(1960)
Two Dog Biscuits(1986)
Janet's Thingamajigs(1987)
The Growing-Up Feet(1987)
Petey's Bedtime Story(1993)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
A Girl from Yamhill(1988)
My Own Two Feet(1995)

Avon Camelot Books
My Own Two Feet(1995)

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

BEST ACCEPTANCE SPEECH EVER!!

THE EMMY'S

Fred Rogers Accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. (1997)

Throughout his career Fred Rogers, both on television and off, emphasized the importance of creating a peaceful environment, and world where all children could grow and learn. "Our goal as a nation must be to make sure that no child is denied the chance to grow in knowledge and character from their very first years," Rogers said at a White House gathering for Early Childhood Initiative, a program for promoting literacy.

"In Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, every child is welcome into the world of learning -- not just a few, not just ones from certain neighborhoods, but every child."

Rogers was the recipient of two Peabody Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, and four Emmy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was bestowed to him in 1997. Rogers, known for always taking the time to remember, reminded the audience that night that thoughtful expression should be followed by thoughtful reflection. As a reminder, below is Mr. Rogers' acceptance speech.

"So many people have helped me to come here to this night. Some of you are here, some are far away and some are even in Heaven. All of us have special ones who loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, 10 seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are, those who cared about you and wanted what was best for you in life. 10 seconds, I'll watch the time. Whomever you've been thinking about, how pleased they must be to know the difference you feel they have made. You know they're kind of people television does well to offer our world. Special thanks to my family, my friends, and my co-workers in Public Broadcasting and Family Communications, and to this Academy for encouraging me, allowing me, all these years to be your neighbor. May God be with you. Thank you very much."

A library of an astonishing 900 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood episodes will continue to be available for broadcast on PBS stations around the country.

THE HUSBAND STORE!!!

Really Easy Cute/Beautiful Christmas Craft Ideas

I found this on Instagram, and I soooo wish I could have found it on youtube so you could just click on the video - but I looked and there are A LOT of them!

But I liked this on the most - so pretty and easy, too.

SUPER DUPER EASY FLOWER

Of course can use any occasion napkins and/or paper