Category Archives: bad memories

Painful Memories – Kirkwood

Posted on February 8, 2009 by moonbridgebooks

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of the Kirkwood City Hall shooting. It brought back memories of being in a church meeting at night, listening to hovering helicopters and sirens, going into lockdown, being fearful of an unknown menace a … Continue reading →

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Allende and Thatcher – Overstepping?

Posted on August 28, 2008 by moonbridgebooks

The Boston Globe recently carried a review of Isabel Allende’s newest book, The Sum of Our Days, in which Allende carries on (and on) about the death of her beloved daughter Paula, the subject of her previous book. Reviewer Debra … Continue reading →

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Family Secrets

Posted on May 2, 2008 by moonbridgebooks

I watched The Savages last week, expecting a touching story of adult children coping with their father’s end-of-life dementia. It was all of that, but what made the story even more deep and more poignant was that the father had … Continue reading →

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