Trixie Belden

In order to post a cute little picture of "me" next to my description of the blog in the upper left-hand corner (actually a picture of Trixie Belden), I have to post it to the blog first. (Yet another bit of inflexibility that comes with a free blog. I'm sorry.) For those of you who do not know, Trixie was a fictional "girl detective" in a series of young adult novels. The first novel, "The Secret of the Mansion" was published in 1948. While it was published a little before my time, I "discovered" them when I was a kid and loved them. Trixie was spunky, smart and flawed, just like I like my heroines.

I promise to write more about my inner turmoil surrounding my weight loss soon!