Maybe I’m on a bit of a shoe thing, but I read something funny this a.m..  It was about an interview Heather Malik did with writer Margaret Atwood.  I hate to say I haven’t read enough of Atwood’s stuff. I simply can’t get through ”Handmaid’s Tale” but loved “Cat’s Eye”, it totally captured my own experiences with a wacko childhood friend. 

Atwood gives good interview. She tells it like it is with compassion and she’s always funny.  Here’s how the interview went and it’s a paraphrase because I don’t like to yank pages out doctor’s office magazines:

Atwood says, “You can teach people to pull their weight without telling them they’re responsible for the world.  You get over that feeling of total responsibility at a certain age.  You’ll be able to say about some things, “I don’t give a shit.”

Heather enthusiastically agrees with her and she says, “I don’t think you’re there yet Heather.  I see those little red shoes.”

Heather reports that she was wearing pointed painful red satin shoes with short heels.  “But they’re flat!”  she says.

“They’re not. Flat. Enough.  Listen, you’ll get there.”

I want to appoint Atwood as primary Wise Woman in my life.  Heck, I want to *be* as wise as she is.  Maybe one day.  First I’m off to reevaluate my footwear.