Trivia buffs! The title of my blog is the first chapter in one of my favorite books in an old, delightful series. If you can guess the book, you will receive a specially crafted Lego sculpture by yours truly.

Once upon a time, I had a blog. I thought it would be cool to post a scrap of whatever I was writing at the time ...you know, keep people "in the know" about what I was working on. Tantalize followers [there were at least two] with what future glorious words they might see from me. I blogged bits and pieces of a memoir for about a month. I "built" a very good piece in this manner.

Then I entered the finished piece in an online contest. I would have won the contest, according to the editor of the site. Except my "work" had appeared elsewhere. She put my piece in a plagiarism program. And found my memoir. IN MY BLOG!

Cautionary tale, chilluns'.