So. I'm reading a book about the Bros Grimm and how they collected the fairy tales. Turns out they didn't wander from hamlet to small hamlet listening next to the fire in humble cottages. Au contraire. They heard the stories from a handful of educated, in some cases aristocratic women. These are women's tales ( Read more... )

I don't think we're in Kansas any more. From time to time I seem to be able to convince myself that I am still living in the world I knew 6 months ago. It's very comforting when I can do that. But then something new comes along to remind me that this is really Oz not Kansas. And I don't know if I have even found the yellow brick road much less ( Read more... )

To me this seem altogether un-journal like. After all isn't a journal a place where you can record your innermost thoughts, a safe place where nobody can see them unless you carelessly leave it around where they can find it and read it - in which case they will have to pretend that they didn't read it and that everything is still all secret. But ( Read more... )

Does this thirg really work?