Phyllis Cole-Dai’s muse nudged her to write material that would help readers cope during the pandemic and launched a free weekly newsletter called “Staying Power” on March 18, 2020. With […]
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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 MoreRazor Wire Wilderness
Similar to Orange is the New Black, Razor Wire Wilderness is mostly about female inmates, the unique difficulties female inmates endure while incarcerated, and the common choices and traumas that […]
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. […]
Read MoreHer Name Was Margaret
Similar to America’s move in the mid-twentieth century toward the deinstitutionalization of those with significant mental health issues, Canadian journalist and author Denise Davy chronicles her country’s efforts to do […]
Read MoreDignity in Death: Accepting, Assisting, and Preparing for the End of Life
Dignity in Death is an essential guidebook, full of necessary facts, though not the kind of information we relish thinking or talking about. That’s probably why so many leave this […]
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