What Would Gidget Do?

She’d have a blog.

And sometimes, just for laughs, she’d make up entries under the next day’s date and write about kissing Moondoggie and “slipping into nothingness.” Of course, older sister Ann wouldn’t have to be as stealthy in her snooping to find out what Gidget’s up to, or at least pretending to be up to in her diary.

If Gidget - the Sally Field Gidget, not the real-life surfer girl or the Gidgets portrayed by actresses far inferior to Ms. Field - were still a teenager today, the platform would be different, but the cheery disposition (save the temporary goth phase as the lead singer of Gidget and the Gories) would remain. I started this blog under the annoyingly chipper belief that real-world problems don’t have to keep us from living with the ever-hopeful idealism of the real-life or fictional (or in Gidget’s case a combination of both) characters we grew up wishing we could be.