Daily Excerpt: Spunky Grandmas and Other Amusing Characters (Mogren) - Preface


 

The following excerpt comes from Spunky Grandmas and Other Amusing Characters by Ken Mogren. 


PREFACE

 

Today’s grandmothers aren’t much like their outdated stereotype. Sure, some might spend their days knitting in a rocking chair or baking pies in the kitchen, but most grandmas have much different lifestyles and far more spunk than traditionally depicted. The grandma stories in the first chapter celebrate this spunkiness.

 

In the chapters that follow you’ll meet dozens of equally amusing characters. Each chapter has several very short stories that revolve around a theme introduced by a Joella Goyette illustration. Many of these fictional yarns were inspired by real people and events. Some are fables featuring animals acting like humans who might resemble folks you know. The final chapter, “Misfits,” has tales that don’t fit neatly with any of the preceding themes. 

 

Don’t be alarmed if all this looks a lot like poetry. I hesitate to use the S word (sonnet), lest it bring back painful memories of struggling in school to understand what renowned, dead poets were talking about. These are not like those. If you aren’t befuddled by the poetry of Dr. Seuss and Mother Goose, you’ll do just fine with these.

 

By the way, it’s okay to enjoy these stories even if you aren’t a grandma. If you like the grandma tales in the first chapter, you’ll find more throughout the book whenever spunky grandma behavior lines up with a particular theme.


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