A Tale of Two Cities – The Musical!

Before we delve into the masterpiece that is this musical, let me first note – I FINISHED THE BOOK!
After what seemed like an eternity, I finally settled down today and just FINISHED the blasted thing.
So now let’s talk about the musical. Recently I watched the older movie “A Simple Wish,” starring Martin Short. I noticed that the [...]

How To Tame and Train Wild and Vicious Horses – Review

Recently, I wrote an update on our horses’s progress (read here). A man named Craig Parish left the following comment;
We were asked “what do you do in winter to keep the horses fit?” That is a very important question. We get winter ice and snow but we don’t have an indoor arena on the farm. [...]

Reading Challenge In Depth

Check it out! It’s my “Reading Challenge”, which appears in the sidebar, but a little more complex. Click on over if you have a chance!

Seeking Peace – A Review

 In the book “Seeking Peace”, by Johann Arnold, you will learn that peace is not when everything is going right in the world. Peace isn’t even when you are happy with your life. Peace is being able to find God in our often God-less world.
Published in 1998, I found that the book is just as relevent [...]

A Piece of Writing

Just a little bit of something I scribbled in my book last night. I was writing about how awsome thrift stores are. think it kind of describes my love of books. (:
…but it was the books that I loved the most. Oh, the beautiful stacks of fading leather and torn pages. There was something strikingly [...]

The Sun Also Rises…Final Essay

And what a wonderful book it was!
The Sun Also Rises, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a story of 5 friends who travel to Spain to see the bull fights. It has everthing a good story should have…action, romance, humor, and a touch of fighting.
Here is my Character Analysis of Robert Cohn, one of the main characters. [...]

Celebrate Banned Books Week!

I stumbled across this post today, and I was thrilled that I hadn’t missed banned book week!
This post from About.com explains banned books;
A banned book is one that has been removed from the shelves of a library, bookstore, or classroom because of its controversial content. In some cases, banned books of the past have been [...]

Here Lies A Man…

Here is a piece of poetry that I wrote when I was…I want to say 15? I submitted it for publication to Cicada Magazine, but seeing as I never got a reply, I guess it’s not to good.
You can be the judge.
 
 
Here Lies a Man
Copywrite – Margy Hesser, 2009
 
Here Lies a Man who
Played [...]

How To Write a Lab Report and Keep a Lab Book

For highschool students, an important part of Science will be a Lab.
Most colleges require at least 3 lab classes, so it’s benificial to do as many as possible.
Keeping a lab book is actully very easy. Simple buy a Composition book (for those thrifty teens, you can buy one at a dollar store. :]).
First off, number [...]

Hamlet — Final Essay

ACT V, SCENE I
 
This seemingly unimportant scene is vital to the rest of the play, even though it is near the end.
In the first Scene of the last Act, we are greeted by two “clowns” (drudges) digging a hole. Upon closer examination, we realize that these men are not digging just any hole – they [...]