Dream of the Tundra SwanDusk felland the cold came creeping,cam prickling into our hearts.As we tucked beaksinto feathers and settled for sleep,our wings knew.That night, we dreamed the journey:ice-blue sky and the yodel of flight,the...

If you are stealing people’s thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can’t expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans...

It doesn’t matter if you’re born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan’s egg!

I dream that one day I would be a published writer and people would read my books – if not, I would be living in the mountains in a small hut, near a pond where...

Silence is another element we find in classic fairy tales — girls muted by magic or sworn to silence in order to break enchantment. In “The Wild Swans,” a princess is imprisoned by her stepmother,...

Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the route to becoming. All the magic and glass mountains and pearls the size...