Hi Reel Girl fans, For those of you who don’t know, I’m writing a Middle Grade book. Here’s the one sentence description: Legend of Emery: The Battle for the Sather Stone is the story of how Nessa, a Frake, and Posey, a Fairy, overcome a history of mutual prejudice to become great friends, working together [...]
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Reel Girl slowing down for summer to write book
Posted in Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl on May 17, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Disneyland is to imagination as pornography is to sex
Posted in Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl, Toys & products, tagged Can Love Last? The Fate of Romance Over Time, Disneyland, pornography, Stephen Mitchell on May 10, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I spent the last two days in Disneyland, and to my surprise, I didn’t even feel like I was in another world. I thought I would take lots of photos of pinkification and gender-stereotyped-marketing, come back and post them on my blog, and you’d all be shocked and appalled. But I didn’t see much in [...]
8 simple things you can do to change your life
Posted in Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl on April 20, 2012 | 6 Comments »
For about one year, I’ve been doing 8 simple things that make me feel happy and calm. I gleaned these, of course, from several different books and these activities have literally changed my life. Here they are: (1) Sunshine: Get 20 minutes of bright light every day. Light activates Vitamin D which is essential for [...]
Reel Girl going skiing, right after 10AM showing of ‘Hunger Games’
Posted in Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl on March 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Reel Girl will not be posting until next week because it’s Spring Break and we’re headed to Tahoe in a storm. Eek. Maybe we’ll try out snowskating. Have you heard of this? It’s like skateboarding on snow. Apparently, the snowskate was initially created as a toy for kids. I’m playing hooky today, packing and sneaking [...]
New moms, it gets better!
Posted in Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl on March 19, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I saw the link to Devon Cornmeal’s HuffPo post “It Will Get Better” on Lisa Belkin’s FB page. This is such a great post. Every new mom should read it. And moms of older kids should read it, too, just to feel grateful, because who really knew that breast-feeding would be 24/7? Or had any [...]
This is what I came home to last night
Posted in Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl, tagged The Brave Little Seamstress on March 15, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Dad reading The Brave Little Seamstress I won’t tell you about the mayhem that happened after this picture was taken. I guess that’s why we have photos.
Our reading nook
Posted in Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl on March 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We live in a Victorian built in 1911. I love my house but space is limited, all three girls share a room. Desperate for space, we decided to get the most out of the bay window landing on the stairs. The glass reaches too low to build a window seat, our the first idea. So [...]
Reel Girl expands rating system
Posted in Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
After thinking about these feminist fairytales that I love so, I am going to add another letter to Reel Girl’s rating system. And the letter is…T, for Traditional. If Reel Girl assigns a book, movie, or product a T, it means that the subject in question confronts a traditional theme of girls or women in [...]
Forgiveness, storytelling, and how to change the world
Posted in Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl, Statistics, tagged Forgiveness, Fred Luskin on February 7, 2012 | 12 Comments »
A few years ago, I took a class on forgiveness at Stanford. I was intrigued by the incredibly practical way the professor, Fred Luskin, described his course: Forgiveness is a skill that can be learned, like any other skill such as riding a bike or writing a five paragraph essay. Professor Luskin taught our class [...]
January is record month for Reel Girl
Posted in Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl on February 1, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Reel Girl logged 70,000 page views in January! Not bad for a one-woman blog. I couldn’t be happier that so many people are excited about imagining gender equality in the fantasy world. When I started blogging, two years ago, a thoughtful reader secured the Reel Girl name for me, and I’ve finally started moving towards [...]
