Other Monsters
I'm listening to my favorite station and feeling a bit sore about the gums after my trip to the dentist. Needle coming at me, drill coming at me, it's not like this is not all happening on my face. I'm thinking of Steve Martin as the dentist in Little Shop of Horrors, remembering ALL of the lines, ALL of the choreography. But my dentist is a woman, soft spoken, a real one-two with the drill. I like having a woman dentist, a woman doctor. I keep finding these smart, kind, gracious women who answer my questions right before I ask them.
If you are feeling like you want an informed voice in your ear, check out Sara Zuiderveen's review on Miss Grace.
“We carry maps we believe are true: our parents’ relationship, what it says in the baby books, the landscape of our own childhood. These maps are approximate at best, dangerously misleading at worst.†Mothers and Other Monsters, as an intelligent and often playful examination of our social maps, succeeds wonderfully not only in prodding reevaluation of the directions we navigate by, but also the nature of the destination itself.
Maureen McHugh also has a blog about her battle with Hodgkin's disease.