“At the age of seven in the summer of 1965, I lived on an island in Galway, Ireland with my mother Deborah Love, father Peter Matthiessen, and my twelve-year-old stepbrother […]
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But You Look So Normal
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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“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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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