Diana Kupershmit’s moving memoir about raising their special needs daughter is heartfelt and deeply personal. Emma was born with the translocation of the second and fourth chromosomes, a chromosomal abnormality […]
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In Praise of Retreat: Finding Sanctuary in the Modern World
Kirsteen MacLeod refers to herself as “a serial retreater, creating islands of space and time, a week here, a month there, to answer a faint call, barely heard above the […]
Read MoreDon’t Say a Word: A Daughter’s Two Cents
Harebrained, kooky, delirious, naïve, wacky, confused, foolish, hoodwinked: all adjectives that could be attributed to Edna and Leo Roper, the parents of author Elizabeth Roper Marcus. In her memoir, Don’t […]
Read MoreThe Field House: A Writer’s Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine
If you’ve never heard of the early 20th century author Rachel Field, kindly know that Robin Clifford Wood has just published a richly researched, hybrid-structured biography/memoir of the extraordinary woman […]
Read MoreDon’t Ask My Name
During war time, how does a mother explain the impending doom enveloping the community to her ten-year-old daughter? She doesn’t. She bottles it up, keeps everyone quiet and focused. Erika […]
Read MoreIn My Next Life I’ll Get It Right
In My Next Life I’ll Get It Right is a light-hearted, eclectic assemblage of brief personal essays, loosely organized into categories by over-arching theme or setting. Topics cover the waterfront. […]
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