- Aesop's Fables
- American Girl Dolls
- anthropomorphic animals
- the Art Institute of Chicago
- Babar the Elephant and hot air balloons
- Edgar Degas' paintings of ballerinas
- Gothic literature and dark romanticism
- handmade Halloween costumes
- imaginary friends
- Madeline and wanting to be Parisian
- musical theater
- novels by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- "The Owl and The Pussycat" by Edward Lear
- Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
- Rudyard Kipling and stories of imperial India
- Russian folk tales
- Shirley Temple films
- "Tales from the Vienna Woods Waltz"
- Tchaikovsky's ballets
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- building fairy houses out of twigs
- pretending to be a meremaid
- dreaming of joining the circus
- Sherlocke Holmes as a personal hero
- watching The Addams Family before school
- wanting to be Julie Andrews when I grew up
- spending hours in the school library reading encyclopedias
- exhibiting early signs of feminism
- insisting that I was completely normal
- believing, despite adversity, that the world was a beautiful and magical place
feb 27 2010 ∞
apr 4 2010 +