Literature in My Life

As a kid the fiurst set of books I owned and regretfully lost was a set of 5 Beatrix Potter books from her collection,when I was in first grade.That same year Dr. Suess was popular with his "Cat in the Hat", "Are You My Mother?" and other books. Later in junior high there was the Dell book club and Scholastic book club where I was allowed either two books or $5 worth. I always got fun books, nothing educational. In the school library there was one really cute book I loved to take out at least twice a year just to look at the cute artwork and cute storyline. I think  it was Arnold Lobel's "Grasshoper Feast."
At home we had two sets of old family book sets that had fairytales and holidays tales. I just loved to page through them once in awhile even though the artwork was mostly black and white and a few color plates. I can't remembr the name of the sets, too bad. We had to sell those right before we moved down here. We aslo had the Life Nature Library and I loved to page through them and often went to them to get info for science reports and homework up until high school. We sold those in the garage sale too.
In high school I finally got to read those fiction books I bought from book club and then passed them on the school library with their permission.
In college I was able to start collecting books again like "The Best of Trek" series, novelizations of "Star Trek", "Star Trek Concordance", "Good News in Star Trek", and other nonfictional applications of Star Trek.I aslo picked up the 21 story volume of Beatrix Potter but am now looking to replace that with the full volume of 24 stories  edition. Also I collect the Dr. Suees stories that I never had as kid; but today for his alliterations. It was then back in college where I grew to long MS. Frizzle and her Magic School Bus also and collect them now. These three authors are my idols. And I started to write my own stories at the age of 26. Regretfully I was rejected. And turned to a different route. But for those of you interetsed , like editors and agents here is the list:
Holiday Animal Treasury which is a set of 5 stories about the animals that are best remembeerd as the holiday symbol.
A set of 5 stories on how the flowers became the state flower.
A set of 4 (going to be 5) on natural history/science of the prehistoric time .
A abc concept book called By the Beach which is a pop up book.Before then I was published in my high school alma matar's literary magazine called "Kaliedoscope" with my poem "Falling Leaves".
Then had honorary mention in ILOP 1992 edition with my poem ""Did I Tell You?"
Later I used Beatrix Potters "The Tale of Jeremy Fischer" as lesson to teach pond life during a reading lesson in my elementary education course. That's how much I love literature.
During junior high a friend who was older  turned me on to Star Trek . It has kept me warm and cozy on thses lonely nights ever since. At first I use to just love the original crew, but then NG came along and I was hooked and loved every incarnation of it.. I love the Kirk-Spock-McCoy relationship, how Data tries to be human, Dax's science expertise and her love for Worf, Belannas and 7s attempt to blend in with the rest of the crew, Archer and his dog Porthos along with T'Pol and Yoshi. I even love those cartoon crewmembers M'HRess and Lt. Arex. Yep I got it bad !LOL!!! I even submitted an episode but was rejected as usual.
Then one day I was watching a rerun of NG called "Genesis" and said to myself that would make a good video to demonstrate the intrans gene concept. Then I came across a tshirt that had the Larson misquitoes gorging on a human arm and said hey! that would be a good bellwork assignment on overeating and nutrition. Then I also saw Escher Metamorphosis II with the bees and hive and said that would make a great bellwork assignment on the metamorphosis of an insect. And the media biology workbook was born. I also added some Yahoo inetrnet articles and documentaries to supplement the objectives if they were lacking in a little bit of content.The rest is history as they say.
Have a good night!
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