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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 ...

I Wish There Was Snow

I wish there was snow

On Christmas day.

I miss the good times

When we were little.

We would go out to play

And slide down the white slopes

On makeshift sleighs

And form snowballs

To throw at each other

And make snowmen.

When we got too cold

We would go inside,

And once we were warm

We’d go out and play again.

I wish there was snow

On Christmas day.

But we live in Georgia

So it’s hard to say

If we’ll ever have snow

On any given day.

I wish there was snow

During the winter days,

But right now in Georgia

We only have rain.

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