I never asked you to have faith in me, Goody Watson
Most of the time I think the Toast is overrated. Every so often it hits me where I live.
Please go over there and read Mallory Ortberg's "Reasons I Would Not Have Been Burned As A Witch In The Early Modern Era No Matter What I Would Like To Believe About Myself And Would In Fact Have Been Among The Witch-Burners."
I feel a little bit less embarrassed about preteen me, who liked to pat herself on the back about how enlightened she would have been if she'd lived in Salem Village in the 1690s.
Please go over there and read Mallory Ortberg's "Reasons I Would Not Have Been Burned As A Witch In The Early Modern Era No Matter What I Would Like To Believe About Myself And Would In Fact Have Been Among The Witch-Burners."
I feel a little bit less embarrassed about preteen me, who liked to pat herself on the back about how enlightened she would have been if she'd lived in Salem Village in the 1690s.