I picked up This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone one afternoon, planning to read just a little bit in a few minutes of downtime. Instead, I was drawn in and kept reading and reading and reading — through baseball practice, and into the evening. When I think…
Category Archives: Memoir
Video “Review” and Excerpt: The Wilder Life
Jennifer’s attempt at Video Reviews, take two (I’m getting better!). This one features me actually looking at the camera and talking, not reading (except when I’m reading the excerpt of the book). It’s completely different content from my written review of The Wilder Life (These are really just random thoughts, supporting my review). Hop over…
Girls Like Us
Rachel Lloyd opens her book Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself with a story of speaking to an 11 year old child who was being sold for sex with older men. The girl proudly fingers a pink glass heart round…
The Wilder Life, Review
“I was born in 1867 in a log cabin in Wisconsin and maybe you were, too. We lived with our family in the Big Woods, and then we all traveled in a covered wagon to Indian Territory, where Pa built us another house, out on high land where the prairie grasses swayed. Right?” So begins…
Big in China
When writer Alan Paul’s wife was offered a job as the Wall Street Journal’s China bureau chief, a job that would require the family to relocate to Beijing for 3 years, his father told him “You can’t say no to this.” Paul admits that the two of them had begun to be restless in what…
A Mountain of Crumbs
My husband visited Russia in the late 90s, and was talking with a man he met there. At one point, the man said, “We were taught we were the happiest people on earth, but what we didn’t know was that we were actually the saddest.” This quote kept running through my head as I read…
A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood, review and giveaway
A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood by Lisa Catherine Harper is a wonderful book. With absolutely beautiful prose, Harper discusses the ups — such as sharing the news with others, seeing the first ultrasound, feeling the first movement, and first time she saw her baby — with the downs, such as debilitating sciatica, sleeplessness, food aversions,…
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