Which Craft?

See the Publisher’s Weekly review of Tom Colicchio‘s ‘wichcraft, written with Sisha Ortuzar, right here.

Witch craft, for good or evil, is behind motherhood.

Tonight, over dinner – sandwiches at the bar – he said he would like to time travel to the future. To find things out. Would he die from tragedy? Destruction? Assassination?

One can only hope that their child thinks these horrid thoughts because tragedy, destruction and assassination are so far out of their realm. Exotic, extreme, unimaginable.

Tom Robbins says, “It is never too late to have a happy childhood,” a funny notion. While I believe it’s true that where you have been is not where you are going, it does take hocus pocus aplenty to dissolve an unhappy childhood and replace it – true witchcraft.

Tryin’ with all my might and right to be at least 60% Glenda the Good Mum, and hopin’ my 40% Wicked Mum of the West will become memories deeply buried and never exhumed. Stirring a child-brew slowly and steadily, with dreams my son will rise from the cauldron right as rain. Right as rain while he is a child by nature and stature. Right as rain on the first go round.

Is this an art or a craft? A craft, I think. But which craft is it?