Links for Monday, February 4
Feb 4th, 2008 by Jill
- Cassie Premo Steele on Literary Mama: My Wild Child - “I think of all the witchy stepmothers in our history, their haggy ugliness, big noses and brooms, and I wonder. How did we get so afraid of what is wild? I think of Baba Yaga, who did not ride in a broom, but in a mortar and pestle.“ (more)
- On Balance: Post-Divorce Balance - “Then it hit me. I shouldn’t have been going to the family lake house for a weekend with his kids. I mean, I should have, because I was dating their father. But being there was unnatural–for all of us. And once I realized it was okay to feel unnatural and awkward, the weekend started feeling more normal.” (more)
