A Bedtime Story for Beady-Eyed Children

Once upon a time in a kingdom by the bay, a flower child whom we shall call Lady Ann set out to find adventure across the continent in Woodstock, New York.  There our fair maiden encountered an angst-ridden prince from the realm of Brooklyn.  "Don't flinch, Fair Prince," she cried. "I shall rescue you from your psychiatrist and your fear of fresh air and sunshine."  Alas, despite the birth of the Crown Prince of Cocopah, this union was doomed by the gods.  Poor Lady Ann!  Alone in this cruel world with a babe at her breast.

But Lady Ann was a resourceful little hippie chick and wrote the epic tome on raising both princes and peasants as vegetarians, The Organic Baby Food Book, published by Simon & Schuster.  But the nasty old Powers That Be in publishing wouldn't let her use the word 'vegetarian' or publish her militant vegetarian introduction, reducing it to a harmless little cookbook.  Poor Lady Ann!

Using the advance money from that book, She opened Woodstock's first bead store but suffered from gray winters and bad business.  So she packed up the crown prince and headed back to the Golden West. Guided only by angels, phoenixes, unicorns and a really good AAA Trip Tik, she landed in Sedona and set up Cocopah, Sedona's first bead shop.  Concocting magical bead kits that people came from near and far to string, she also made amulets that gave the wearer the power of being truly Beady-Eyed.

Lady Ann's adventures along the way will soon be published in the great (or at least adequate) American novel, Waiting for Mr.Wu. You'll want to stay tuned and learn how she met the powerful King of Wu who rescued her bead business and introduced her to Beijing.

HOW YOU CAN HELP LADY ANN:
1.  Visit http://www.beadofthemonthclub.com/ and buy lots of beads
2.  Visit Cocopah and Cocopah North in Sedona, the oldest bead establishments in Arizona.
3.  Demand a new publication of The Organic Baby Food Book
4.  Demand publication of Waiting for Mr. Wu (and the two other novels in the'New West' trilogy.)
5.  Buy my son's book: Busted by M. Chris Fabricant
Next Posting: June 1, 2011 on why the Hopis have so few beads.