(Things I thought when I went to buy toilet paper
during the Corona Virus Pandemic) The Chinese thought of you first: paper for the emperor’s spotless behind. Back when the rest of us used moss, or grass, or sticks and stones, bones and corncobs, wool and lace if we were rich, the water of running streams, if poor. Newspaper, if literate. 1890 two brothers put you on a roll, and off you went, to help us clean up and prank and celebrate and take revenge, and now, it seems, we have forgotten how to live without you. You comfort us, like pasta, also Chinese, also sold out. (Anna Witte, March 10, 2020)
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A little about myself:Hello there and thank you for visiting my website! I have lived in Spain, Mexico, France and the United States, but now make my home in Germany. I have a Ph.D. in Literary Studies and a Master's in TESOL, and have published several books for children, among them El Loro Tico Tango and El Fandango de Lola, a 2012 Ezra Jack Keats Honor Book. As a writer and an artist I'm in constant conversation with my own anxious mind even as I celebrate the joyful possibilities of our crazy, incomprehensible world. Archives
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