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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 ...

Perhaps I’m an Alien


Sometimes I feel like a weirdo

Everywhere I go.

I wonder about social norms

Like when should I say hello


Or when should I ignore someone

And keep going on my way?

Or how do I end a conversation

Before walking away?


If I say hello and no one hears,

That is a little awkward for me.

If I don’t say hello and the other person does

That makes me worry.


What if the other person thinks

That I think poorly of them

Because instead of saying hello

I decided to ignore them?


When someone says “Thank you,”

What should I say?

Do I say, “No problem,” 

Or “My pleasure, have a good day?”


I think the latter is the most pleasant

But when I say “No problem,” by accident

I think, “Now they think I was annoyed by them

And that their presence was inconvenient.”


Perhaps I am an alien

Who somehow got left behind

By the other aliens, and as a result 

I’m struggling with the customs of mankind.


I’d like to think I’m a fairy

Forced to live amongst the human race.

But I’m most likely a silly, lost alien

Who needs to get back to outer space.

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