Would You Rather Be the Pigeon or the Statue?
By Freda Gower Ward

     In her new book, humorist Freda Gower Ward asks the question, “Would You Rather Be the Pigeon or the Statue?” She explains the meaning behind the title in her introduction: “Come visit with me as I reflect on seventy years and how we fit in as the pigeon, who thinks he’s always right and unloads on others, the statue, on which the pigeon unloads—or both at the same time.”

     During some periods in our lives, we may actually feel like the pigeon. However, most of the time I’m afraid we are just the hapless statue who winds up “dumped on” (sorry, just couldn’t pass it up) by the circumstances of day-to-day existence.

     In Would You Rather Be the Pigeon or the Statue? Freda talks about school teachers who get younger as we grow older, what it’s like to be thirteen for three years, the truth behind the discovery of gravity (this is something women figured out long before Isaac Newton had his sudden “revelation”), and many of the other so-called “mysteries of life.” Freda can find humor in anything, including wrinkles, toilet seats, pop-top cans, weight, and husbands. She helps us to laugh at ourselves as we struggle to break out of the role of “statue” and dare to fly high with the pigeons. (Wait a minute. That doesn’t sound quite right!)

     Freda Gower Ward is one of the most inspirational and downright hysterical writers around. I guarantee you that after you read one of her books you’ll be hooked for good.

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