You may be wondering about my qualifications. After all, my advice may alter your life.
I have loved Gone with the Wind ever since elementary school. Since 1987, I have read it many times a year. I tried to incorporate it into every essay I ever wrote. This page is a salute to my favorite novel and what Margaret Mitchell has given me and, when you think about it, the entire world.
I attended the University of Northern Colorado, where I graduated in 1995 with a degree in English (Secondary Education). I now teach middle school language arts and I am an OSU graduate student. Do not worry. You are in good hands!
If you, for some incomprehensible reason, are only able to read one novel, let it be Gone with the Wind. Margaret Mitchell's epic has enriched the lives of so many through the book, a movie, and now cyberspace. OSU limits what can be on these pages, so that explains the lack of pictures, clips, and sound bytes.
Accept Gone with the Wind, or leave my website. Go cry alone.
While you have accepted or even embraced Gone with the Wind as heroic saga, you may wonder how the novel can specifically add meaning to you. If you are articulate and patient, I can help you.
Only send me your problem.
I do not care how famous you are or what level of government you are in.
I refuse to advise people who do not take the time to contact me personally.
Using appropriate language,
explain your situation in clear, concise terms.
Do not submit problems
that would force me to involve the law.
Tell me if your problem
can be solved with a mere quotation or if it is more severe. Do not blow
things out of proportion. Be objective.
Do not place excessive
blame on others. It would not be your problem if you were not involved.
If you want page number
references, tell me which edition you are using and if the book is a paperback
or a hardback. I will try to accommodate you.
Do not abuse this service.
I want to help you, and Margaret Mitchell wants me to help you. However,
if you seek my guidance more than once a month I will encourage you to
consider some form of therapy your insurance will pay for. This is literary
advice, not psychological treatment.
Do
not attempt to defeat my recommendations.
Do not hold me responsible
for bad things that happen as a result this experience. If things work
out the wrong way, then you asked the wrong question.
Take me to the other options, please.
My little orange friend was mere fur and bones attached to an IV. I told him that unless he perked up we would put him to sleep. (It was not a threat, but a fact.)
I stayed with Socksie at the vet's from open to close. I read him inspriational sections from GWTW. He awoke, but he was too weak to even mew.
I went home and my dad and I returned to Socks, expecting the worst. Instead, we saw that the spirit of Scarlett had been instilled in him. As God was his witness, he would never be in a coma again, but he would be hungry. Diabetics are always hungry.
Standing up on thin, shaved legs, he was also standing on courage and gumption. This little fighter was predicted to last three months; he lived until December 30, 1996.
I recieved a copy of "The Scarlett Letter", a quarterly newsletter devoted to GWTW. The Scarlett Letter, 1347 Greenmoss Drive, Richmond, VA 23225. No, I did not get a free subscription.
Are you interested in other GWTW sites?
Michael's
Gone with the Wind Page 
The Historian's Gallery.
The Mitchell House
Scarlett Lives On
Sherrie's Gone with the Wind Page
Proof of Mitchell's Talent
Irish Roots of GWTW Nicole's
Gone with the Wind Page Gone
with the Wind Movie PageGone
with the Wind Memorabilia Page
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