Thriving Despite the Odds Ever wondered what words sound like to those who cannot hear them? I began to get a clue with Claudia Marseille’s description when she said, “My […]
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Honeymoon at Sea
“Soon, Watchfire was struggling up each oncoming wave and plunging down the other side, only to head up again, moving forward but seemingly going nowhere. It was as if something […]
Read MoreStanding at Water’s Edge
Irony has a way of sometimes completely changing one’s trajectory. It was ironic that author Janice Post-White found herself deeply connected to cancer when Brennan, her four-year-old son, was diagnosed […]
Read MoreUntethered
Talk about being untethered—merely reading Deborah L. Staunton’s memoir Untethered is enough to rattle the most mentally stable. This terse, poignant, sorrowful-tinged mix of prose and poetry tugs at your […]
Read MoreThis Familiar Heart
Babette Fraser Hale’s latest book, entitled This Familiar Heart, appears at first to evoke a sort of seventies Love Story theme. That movie, starring Ali McGraw and Ryan O’Neil, though […]
Read MoreWe Used to Dance: Loving Judy, My Disabled Twin
How does one cope with the complexities of unwarranted guilt? That is a crucial question that Debbie Chein Morris is striving to answer in her poignant memoir, We Used to […]
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