Illustrated by Inga Moore Jacki Kellum Notes on The Secret Garden During Chapter 3 of The Secret Garden, we begin to see glimmers of light. If you remember, in Chapter 2 of The Secret Garden, Mary was dressed all in black and while she was riding in a carriage toward the gloomy Misselthaite Manor, rain…
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Heavenly Blue Morning Glory – The Heirloom My Grandmother Grew – Compared to the Weed Ivyleaf Morning Glory
Washerwoman – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Painting All of her life, my grandmother both washed and rinsed her laundry in galvanized tubs. My grandmother’s wash tubs rested on a small sun porch attached to the back of her house [No, not THAT kind of sun porch–just a space with windows to wash her clothes]. My grandmother…
Bring Me Home – An Overarching Theme in Literature – in Jacki Kellum Looking at Lit Club
The search for a true home is a recurring theme in literature. In some cases, the protagonist leaves home, and discovers that the true home of his heart was the one he lor she left: That also happend in Where the Wild Things Are: “That very night in Max’s room a forest grew and grew…
Septembers, School Days, and Coming Back Home
It is September, and schools across the USA are back in session now. Fifty-five Septembers ago, I left my rural farmland to attend college at the University of Mississippi. In terms of the seasons of the year, that was early autumn. In terms of the seasons of my life, it was early summer. You see,…
Mississippi – I’m Finally Coming Back Home: Moving to Water Valley, Mississippi
Thomas Wolfe wrote, “You can never go home again,” and while I understand his premise, I must say that I’ve been trying to get back home for more than half a century. Finally, I’m moving back to the home of my heart, and that’s a place very few people ever find. I am moving back…