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Read more: The wonderful extravagances of marriageWe talked about Sandra Cisneros and how she explains about family stories and connections in our last blog post. We also like Cisneros discussion of…
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Read more: The awful grandmotherIn her semi-autobiographical novel Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros tells the multigenerational story of a Mexican-American family. Cisneros once explained that she originally just wanted to explain…
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Read more: The death of Anthony ShadidWhen I turned on my computer to my Yahoo news page and saw the picture of Anthony Shadid and read that he had died at…
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Read more: Winning the food warsDuring February of last year, I was jubilant. I had survived a Christmas filled with rich chocolates and pecan pie, mashed potatoes with gravy and…
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Read more: “Resilient optimism”Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of Louis Zamperini in her book Unbroken—A World War II Story of Survival, Reislience and Redemption. Louie’s story is incredible.…
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Read more: Depressed? Or, happy?Are you feeling depressed or happy? Or, neither? Or, something in between depressed and happy? Are you feeling joyful, cheerful, lucky, blessed, satisfied or content?…
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Read more: Acting out of characterIntroverts seem to be getting a lot of attention recently. We read a newspaper article about the advantages of being an introvert and discussed it…
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Read more: Why it’s okay to be an introvertWe often praise teamwork and prefer the life-of-the-party to the loner. But Susan Cain, writing in an article in the January 29, 2012, issue of…
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Read more: Yes, it was a perfect afternoonYou may remember that I wrote recently about a perfect January afternoon I spent with my daughter, Mary Elizabeth, at the horse rescue where Mary…
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Read more: Lily’s rules for housekeepingIn her second book Half Broke Horses, best-selling author Jeannette Walls tells the story of her grandmother Lily Casey Smith, who was at times “a…