The other day in class, we were discussing the Tiger Woods contretemps and I said I'd probably end up posting on it. So here I am, posting, and I still think, as I said in class on Thursday, that the whole L'Affaire Tiger reminds me of "The Emperor's...

Here's a challenge as we gallop our way through the 2009 holiday season: What would your favorite characters from fairy tales (good and evil) eat as they celebrated the winter season? Which characters would you pick? (No less than four, no more than...

Quick: What do "Snow White," "Cinderella," and "Beauty and the Beast," all share? Radiantly lovely heroines? Yes. Nasty villainesses? Yes. Villainous fathers? Absolutely. Yes, villainous fathers. One of the most neglected characters in fairy tale...

Despite abundant cultural myths to the contrary, many, if not most fairy tales do not feature a passive heroine, waiting for hero prince to rescue her. "The Nixy" is one such tale. It seems to fall into the "girl saves boy or hero" classification,...

<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When last my T390 class met, we were discussing the true intentions of the "wolf" in "Little Red Riding Hood." The wolf, is, of course, symbolic of predatory men. A reader doesn't need to be...