Literary Madeleine: Grasping at Stars
by Vicki Palmquist How many children, over how many years, have learned from their parents to identify the stars that make up the Big Dipper? Can you see them standing outside, pointing to the stars in the dark sky, tracing the make-believe line that draws a saucepan in the heavens? My mother told me some of the stories she knew about the constellations, about the Great Bear and Orion and Andromeda.… more