In which I explore my love affair with Alice in Wonderland as a child.
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Alice Captured My Childhood Anxieties
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The Children’s Hour
Monday I am retooling a post that I wrote five years ago to apply to yesterday’s visit to my four grandchildren. As the three oldest, Esmé (7), Etta (5), and Eden (3), swarmed over me on their playroom floor, I recalled Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Children’s Hour.” It too features an elder man being swarmed […]
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