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We Hope You Like This Song: Healing from a death

Soon after my mother died, I caught Bree Housley at Left Bank Books talking about her memoir,  We Hope You Like This Song. The subtitle is “an overly honest story about friendship, death, and mix tapes”. The writeups said the … Continue reading

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Sonia Marsh tells all about paradise in Freeways to Flip-Flops memoir

Have you ever dreamed of getting away from it all? Leaving the rat race, retiring somewhere where the breeze is gentle off the ocean and time stands still? Sonia Marsh did it. She and her husband plucked up their boys … Continue reading

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Searching for Jane, Finding Myself: a memoir by an adopted child

In a recent posting, I mused about a comment a young lady made to me about five years ago. She said she was adopted, so she didn’t have any stories about her mother. I said she had a mother whose … Continue reading

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