by Alica McKenna Johnson | Apr 29, 2013 | Monday Musings
When I was little I couldn’t pronounce what my father did for a living. Lithographer was simply too difficult. However, within the printing industry my father’s job was called ‘stripper’ because he cut out and assembled strips of film. I can still remember being five...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Mar 27, 2013 | Wise Witty and Wacky Wednesday
Once upon a time, my loving and brilliant parents, fooled into thinking I was a good child, made a rule. You see my sister and I had been fighting a lot which had become hitting a lot. So the new rule stated that if one of us hit the other, the injured party got to...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Jan 14, 2013 | Monday Musings
I love IMDB, and almost every movie or show I watch I will check IMDB at least once to find out where else I have seen an actor, where I recognize a voice from, or because the movie is so good that I want to know what else the director, actors, writers have done! I...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Jan 9, 2013 | Wise Witty and Wacky Wednesday
Well, just one of the lies—I need to stretch them out so I can do other blog posts. So I was an evil child, not wild and crazy , but sneaky manipulative evil. When I was six and my little innocent sister was five we shared a room, and every night we had to clean our...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Dec 3, 2012 | Monday Musings
One fine summer day my sister (8) and I (9) were left alone because we were old enough to look after ourselves. We decided to go on a picnic. The suburb we lived in was a new development. Lovely Alaskan forest was bulldozed to make building space for our townhouse....