stephmckenzie

This is one of my favorite episodes. It is also when I first became emotionally invested in Rumplestiltskin's love life. You'll see why. Enchanted Forest, The Past--There are people in some kind of castle,

Storybrooke, The Present--Henry and Emma are meeting up at Henry's "castle" by the beach, and he assures Emma that Regina knows nothing about the castle. Henry: "It's our secret." Of course, that's when

Storybrooke, The Present--Henry wants to know WTF the stranger on the motorcycle is doing in town. The stranger isn't saying, except that he's there to do "something." Regina is freaked the heck out that

This is the obligatory "Hansel and Gretel" episode. Unlike Cinderella, who you will see again a handful of times in this show, Hansel and Gretel are one-off characters (unless you count Season 7....which

It's been a long time since I watched Season One, and this is the first episode in it where I couldn't remember what it was about just by the episode title. It turns out, it's not a bad one. It shows you

Did you guys notice Jamie Dornan is the one who plays Sheriff Graham on this show? I mention it because you should definitely NOT feel bad for him, whatever happens in this episode. He went on to be the

I had to take my poor little cat Lucy to get a "catbortion" today. She's convalescing under my bed right now. When I brought her home, she was so stoned from the anesthesia, she kept stumbling sideways

Storybrooke, The Present--I'm pretty sure the house in the opening scene is Emma's house from the second half of Season Five onward. Right now, however, it is Charming and Katherine's house, and Katherine

Enchanted Forest, The Past---We open at a medieval fair, with a "Punch and Judy"-type puppet show going on. In the assembled crowd is a kid of about 7 or 8 years old, with curly red hair, who is picking

This is a Cinderella ep, guys. You knew there had to be one, right? Basically, Cinderella's step-mother and step-sisters go to the ball, leaving poor, dressed-in-rags Ella all alone to clean. Her fairy

Enchanted Forest--Sometime in the past. A carriage comes down a dirt path. It's a fancy carriage, with armored drivers and white horses. Hey! Charming is inside, along with a fancily dressed blonde woman

Still with me? Good. Things are moving along in Storybrooke, with the clock continuing to move. Snow notices it, as she eats her cereal in the morning and looks out her window. It's unusual, and nothing

Okay. I have been reading some funny recaps of old TV shows, and I thought, hey, that looks like fun. I can do that. Recently, I've been re-watching what was once one of my favorite shows, Once Upon a

I could write so many of these. But, here is a first entry. I've been fascinated by @grow-pro's #iwasakid challenge for a while, but was working on posting my novel here. Now that it's done, I can do some

Lizzie stares blankly at him, mouth agape.  “Oh, don’t give me that look, Lizzie,” Jacob says, dismissing her stunned expression with an irritated wave. He crosses the room and sits on the corner

Jacob sets his cell phone down on the kitchen counter.  “That was Matt,” he says. “He wants to come over and ask me some questions about his grandmother and where she went on her most recent trip

I pause to stop myself from raising my voice too high and catching the kids’ attention. Leaning my head down, I look up at his sincere expression, stunned. “What?” I whisper.  “Grandma has been traveling,

“Oh, I did find something cool in the historical records,” I say, remembering my search from yesterday. “Check it out.”  I type an address into the search bar of my web browser, and a scanned page

It’s amazing how resilient kids are. My little ones have been pulled away from everything they’ve ever known and dropped into an alien environment, their friends, neighbors, and grandparents on Joshua’s

When I told Matt I never expected Joshua to leave his own time and adapt to life more than 300 years in the future, I meant it. The moment I realized it was my husband and children coming through the portal,