by Michelle Tocher | Mar 25, 2022
In his book, The Practice of Dream Healing, Edward Tick writes: …in our contemporary moral vacuum, public figures seem to see it as their duty to resist and deny the need for shriving. Shriving. It’s an old word, so unused and unpracticed that it has slipped out of...
by Michelle Tocher | Feb 10, 2022
In his book, Mirror rorriM, Mark Pendergrast takes us on a time-travelling tour of the looking glass, and he’s left me enthralled by the impact that mirrors have had on human societies. Pendergrast is mostly interested in the development of the mirror as a...
by Michelle Tocher | Sep 25, 2021
It’s amazing how long a picture from a fairy tale can stay with you. For years, I have had a picture in the back of my mind. A princess has been turned into a withering old woman with balding red hair and grey wrinkled skin. She’s stuck in a dusty garret in a castle...
by Michelle Tocher | Jul 10, 2021
The fairy tale has been called “the land of the soul.” It’s a terrain we can enter. We can gaze into wells, wander through forests and castles, swim in lakes, and climb glass mountains. We can dive deeply with the mermaids or soar to the heavens on...
by Michelle Tocher | Mar 20, 2021
Pity the tight, constrained, over-edited lines living their conventional lives lined up in perfect order little scouts, doing what they’re told unable to speak for themselves… Original Thoughts Oh, do you mind? May I break through the lines to ask a few...
