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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 ...

Trip to the Beach


We went to two beaches a couple of days ago. The first beach was alright, but it had a small wall at the shoreline, so we went to another one. I thought it would be warm at the beach, but it was actually a bit cold, too cold to wear shorts. It was nice to record the ocean waves and the birds. I think we would have stayed longer if it were warmer out, but I enjoyed our trip. I enjoy the journey to a place almost as much as being at the destination, and it was nice to be out of the house.

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