Why, when asked to name a 'favorite fairytale', would a woman who loves to swim and hates to bother with her hair, always blurt out 'Rapunzel'? Of all the fairytales that she has encountered and loved over the years, why would she choose the one fairytale that she disliked so much that she never even bothered to read it all the way to its 'happily ever after' ending? The author of "Rapunzel and Thornproof Tires" untangles the strands of her life as...