Book Review: Drawing Breath by Gayle Brandeis
A book review of Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss by Gayle Brandeis.
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While I Was Away, A Nice Surprise
I have been away for about 10 days on a beautiful vacation to Portugal. I will write more about it when I’m not so tired, I wanted to share a nice surprise I learned about while I was gone. An excerpt from my memoir about my brain tumor and my dad’s stroke was published while…
Book Review: Beauty in the Broken Places
This week I read Beauty in the Broken Places by Allison Pataki. It is the story of how Pataki’s husband Dave suffers a stroke in mid-air as they are flying to Hawaii during their “babymoon” when she was five months pregnant. Not that anyone ever expects a stroke, but he is only 30 and healthy,…
Take in the Lilacs While You Can
The bloom and the scent of lilacs are fleeting, but they’ve inspired me for years.
Can We Just Get Honest About Rejection?
Rejection stings a little less when we know why we’re being rejected.
Book Review: Logical Family
Logical Family by Armistead Maupin is about finding your logical family, the place where you belong, which is not necessarily with who or where you were born. As Maupin puts it in the book: “Sooner or later … we must join the diaspora, venturing beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one…
Rehydrating During The Last Dreadful Days of February
Winter dries me out like the tin man without oil. By the time February comes I need to rehydrate with some alternative therapy.
Review “Good Things Happen Slowly”
Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life in and Out of Jazz by Fred Hersch My rating: 3 of 5 stars I know nothing about jazz, but wanted to read this book because of Hersch’s medical story. I ended up learning more about jazz and liking that part of the book. I also enjoyed his perspective…
Trying a Story Sketch
Story Sketch for my memoir of my brain tumor and my father’s stroke.
A Sucker for a Redemption Story
What do your favorite movies and books tell you about your favorite type of story?