Pam Webb

Nifty Fifty

Ta-dah! This marks my fiftieth post and to commemorate the event here are some random fifty trivia bits.

1.  This weekend my community celebrates Lost in the Fifties.  It’s a weekend where people dress up in poodle skirts and 501’s and saddle shoes and watch a parade of old-time cars go by.  There’s a street dance and a big dance at the fairgrounds with bands that are mock-fifty era sounding.  Doesn’t sound like much, but it’s a biggie for tourist bucks.  We even showed American Graffiti at the local stage theatre.

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2.  Of the fifty United States I’ve only been to about seven.  Does airport transfers count?  Then make it about a dozen.

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3.  I don’t like weather colder than the fifties.  Forty-five is pushing my comfort zone.

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4.  If I could name my top favorite fifty books I would have to say To Kill a Mockingbird remains close to the top as my favorite reread.  Which is saying something since I teach just about every year to ninth graders.

5.  Should I set out to gather fifty quotes about reading, writing, and books I would include these gems:

• The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes. Agatha Christie
• The desire to write grows with writing. Desiderius Erasmus
•  My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. Anais Nin
•  If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.Tennessee Williams
•  The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them. Jeff Jarvis
•  I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done. Steven Wright
•  Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.Marsha Norman
•  Be obscure clearly.E.B. White
• The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.Gustave Flaubert
•  Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. Isaac Asimov

6.  Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover is one of Paul Simon’s songs that tends to loop in my brain now and then.