A friend recently confessed that she was bored by a book she had read for a book club. Having just slogged through the same book myself, I agreed completely. As I writer, I knew exactly why the book didn’t work for me. But the woman I was chatting with couldn’t articulate why she hated the…
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Why the Itsy Bitsy Spider Is a Bad Metaphor
By Jeffe Kennedy Now that summer is here, I start my mornings by watering the potted plants on the patio, which always sets the spiders scurrying away. I don’t worry about them, because I know they’ll come back to their webs and continue spinning and weaving. I do worry about the finches, who love to…