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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 Hate Strawberries



I hate strawberries.

They’re too sweet. Also, upside-down strawberries look like tear drops, which is depressing! I could be having a perfectly wonderful day, but as soon as I see a single strawberry, I remember I was crying days before.

As if that weren’t bad enough, they have seeds on the outside. No respectable fruit has seeds on the outside that get stuck in your teeth!

Furthermore, strawberries are as red as a stop sign, which obviously means they’re not meant for consumption. Snowberries, on the other hand, are perfect for a sophisticated Woodland Sprite like me. Want some, mortal?

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