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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 ...
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What Names Should I Choose?

Naming my characters

Can be so hard to do.

Should I name one Louise

Or for short, call her Lou?


I like to give their names meaning

Something that reflects their character,

Like a fiery girl named Amber

Or a shy girl named Lavender.


But maybe some names

Are too on the nose

Like Maleficent, Goodfellow

Or Innocent Rose.


Despite the difficulty, 

I love to employ

My naming skills

To find names I enjoy.


I would love to name a character

Paisley or Maisy

Or Mosie or Posey

Or Hailey or Daisy.


I could name one Deborah

And another could be Yihana.

Another could be Alisa

And another could be Ayanna.


I could name characters

Zackary or Titus

Or Bebo, or Norman

Or Orion or Situs.


I could name one Kazimir

And still another Veggie,

Or Zeus or Atlas

Or maybe just Reggie.


So many names,

So many choices!

I still have yet to think

Of their stories and character voices!


I should come up

With a name as a placeholder

So I can focus on the story

And see if I like it as it gets older.


But what should be

My placeholder name?

Should it be Victoria, Arachnophobia,

Or Unquechable Flame?

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