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Two Old Women: Book Review

One day, I was browsing the bookshelves of my local library looking for something interesting to read. There’s one particular shelf in an adult section of the library that I like to browse all the time, and it’s one that has books of myth, folklore, and fairytales . I eventually found a book that I had never heard of or read before; Two Old Women . Two Old Women is a book written by Velma Wallis . It is an Alaskan legend of the Gwich’in people that Wallis’s mother told her after they had finished collecting firewood (p. xi). According to Wallis, her mother had told her this story because of an earlier conversation they had while collecting firewood (p. X.) Wallis was amazed by the fact that her mother still collected her own firewood despite being in her early fifties, and despite the work being physically difficult for her (p. xii) According to Wallis, the elders amongst her people would work until they couldn’t move or until they died (p. xii). After talking about these things, her ...

My New Ebook Out on Kindle

I have recently published a short ebook of three short stories on Amazon. The book is called Animal Tales: Short stories of an Ant, a Frog, and a Chicken. In the first story, an ant goes on a life-threatening top-secret mission. In the second story, a frog is not satisfied with the menu at a restaurant and insists that the restaurant makes her fried fruit flies. In the third story, a chicken tries to reason his way out of being eaten for dinner.

If you are interested in reading it, you can find it by clicking on the Amazon Author Page link on the home page. If you decide to read it, I hope you enjoy it.





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