For an upcoming baby shower, I have been tasked with crafting Mad Libs (a task I relish). Here are 15 ideas of nursery rhymes/children's songs that could be fun to Mad-Lib-ify. "Baa Baa Black Sheep" "Do Your Ears Hang Low?" "Five Little Monkeys" "Hey Diddle Diddle" "Humpty Dumpty" "Hush Little Baby" "Itsy Bitsy Spider" "This Little Piggy" "London Bridge Is Falling Down" "Mary Had A Little Lamb" "This Old Man" "Open Shut Them" "Rock-a-Bye Baby" "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" "The Wheels On The Bus" (Prompt by me) "Fairy Garden, Cheltenham, Victoria - 1950s" posted by Kaye . Public domain .
A dear friend texted me a prompt idea: "Put together a course syllabus from your collection of books, and what’s the theme and why read them together"--I thought it was a great idea, so here it goes (also, note that formatting on this blog is a tad limited, but I did my best)! VAMPIRIC LITERATURE (HOLL 101) Instructor Name and Preferred Title : Holly Smith (just call her Holly or she'll feel super old) Affiliated Department/Program/Organization : Independent scholar Degrees held : BA'14 History, minor in Statistics, Swarthmore College, MA'19 Writing, National University of Ireland, Galway (now Galway University) Course Description HOLL 101 invites students to delve into potential origins of European-based vampire lore and then, in turn, how vampiric characters have been portrayed throughout five different fictional works (mentioned and then listed below). Finally, what does this old lore and these texts throughout time tell us about our views of death, monsters, a...