Rick Bailey's brilliant essays on life's messiness, humor and awkwardness leap, spin and dazzle in American English, Italian Chocolate. He expounds with eloquence about the horror of house flies, the … Continue reading >>
What:
I’m revising my forthcoming memoir, Bosom Buddies: How Breast Cancer fostered an Unexpected Friendship across the Israeli-Palestinian Divide. It’s a narrative that I’ve penned, with humor and … Continue reading >>
It began with a child's curiosity:
While innocently snooping through her mother’s bedroom at age twelve, Hilary Harper discovered her parents had adopted her. Insatiably curious, she continued to … Continue reading >>
A Parent's Expectations:
Looking back, Carolyn Walker writes that it was good that she and her husband didn’t know what to expect when their daughter Jennifer was diagnosed with Rubinstein-Taybi … Continue reading >>
Bandit, a Daughter's Memoir is such an exceptional memoir that I'm not sure I can do it justice.
Memory comes back to us in bits and pieces, discordant vignettes that we try to stitch into a narrative … Continue reading >>
Being nice is fine unless...
Rare is the person who can look honestly at their life and relationship patterns, and then act on what they see. Many of us stumble through, blaming bad luck or bad … Continue reading >>