Deeper into the Enchanted Woods We GoA couple of weeks ago I wrote about Bruno Bettelheim’s The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Vintage)Here are two more…
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Courage Book Review – “I will stir up the waters of the old days and shape the long-ago then into now.”Today’s offering is a great retelling of Beowulf. This version is subtitled, A Hero’s Tale Retold, and was written and illustrated by James Rumford. What…
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Fenrir: Big, Bad WolfA few weeks ago I wrote about trickster tales, and the importance of reclaiming intellectual courage from the stigma of trickery. The tradition of the…
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Into the Enchanted Woods!Today I’d like to offer a couple of passages from the introduction to Bruno Bettelheim’s landmark book, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of…
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The Briar Patch“What are your favorite stories?” I ask my daughter. Without hesitation the answer always comes back, “Anansi stories.” Anansi the Spider is a trickster in…
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First Steps on the PathCopyright Andrey Voznjuk, Dreamstime.com I wanted to get back to that bit about navigating the neighborhood, because I think it’s a really big topic —…
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Courage Question of the DayLion’s Whiskers asks: Which fairy tales inspired you as a child? What did they inspire you to create in your life, do you think? (i.e. taking…
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Relativity“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”…
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We Just Turned 40!40 countries that is! We would like to say “Thank You” to all our readers in the 40 countries who have visited Lion’s Whiskers to date….
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Sharing Family StoriesThere is a big difference between my family and my husband’s family. My family relies on humor as the glue to hold us all together—the…
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