Let’s Write a Few Words about Our Childhood Homes

How to Participate in Memoir Mondays: All of you need to get a cheap, black-speckled journal at Walmart, Dollar General, or wherever else. If you already have a journal, that’s okay, too. But toward the end of the year, I’ll share tips for decorating and altering a simple composition book to turn it into an…

Soldier’s Home – A Short Story by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway, “Soldier’s Home” (1925) The following is copied from The Complete Bedford Introduction to Literature. Work Cited Hemingway, Ernest. “Soldier’s Home.” The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, edited by Michael Meyer and D. Quentin Miller, 12th ed., Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2020, pp. 110-115. Krebs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas. There…

A House in the Woods – A Picture Book by Inga Moore

“A Little Pig had made a den for herself in the woods. Next door, another Little Pig had made himself a hut.” “But when the first Little Pig brought hr feather home to her den, she discovered that Bear had moved in–which she didn’t mind because she likes Bear.” To summarize: Because the animals had…

Women Who Run with the Wolves Quotes

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly “Folklore, fairy tales and dream symbols are called on to help restore women’s neglected intuitive and instinctive abilities in this earthy first book by a Jungian analyst. According to Estes, wolves and women share a psychic bond in their fierceness, grace and devotion to mate and community. This comparison defines…

The Tuck Family Home in Tuck Everlasting – Home As Paradise

“It was amazing, then, to climb a long hill, to see ahead another hill, and beyond that the deep green of a scattered pine forest, and as you climbed, to feel the air ease and soften. Winnie revived, sniffing, and was able to ride the horse again, perched behind Mae. And to her oft-repeated question,…

The House or Home as a Theme in Literature

I have read many books, poems, and short stories, and I have listened to many songs, too. In my humble opinion, much of the literature will say something about a house or two. Some of writing describes a house as warm and fuzzy. Some of it describes a house as cold and sterile. Some of…