The other day I mentioned the deep regret I feel over not having taken small scraps of wallpaper from the rooms of my parents’ house.
Five Wallpapers by Anne Panning
Everything Must Go by Marie Manilla
It’s all tagged. Baggies of nails from Dad’s workshop. Two end tables that belonged to my Italian grandparents. Even the dust mop.
Higher, Farther, Faster by Anne Pinkerton
“Why would someone want to do that?” my mother asks. She is sitting at my dining room table and has opened my new issue of Outside Magazine …
Forgive Me South Dakota by Vivé Griffith
I traveled with my grandmother’s journal as my guide. She drove your roads in 1946 when she and three friends set out after the war.
Tom Thumb of Crystal City by Alison Condie Jaenicke
I was a clerk-typist; he was an analyst and technically my boss. His was a real post-college career and mine was a summer and winter break job…
Invaders on Holiday (or, The Consequences of Time Travel at the International Stone Skipping Competition) by Shane Cashman
You had no idea stone skipping was a competitive sport until the day you ran out of stones to skip at your childhood lake.
Review: Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home by Lara Lillibridge
Complicated is an apt description of the family relationships that Lillibridge chronicles in her book.
Review: Maps Are Lines We Draw: A Road Trip through Haiti by Allison Coffelt
Coffelt’s slim, 137-page volume tells the story of her trip to Haiti – a journey ten years in the making.
Review: The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
What Vanasco does in her book is way more compelling than filling in what she doesn’t know: she experiments with form by shattering the story into shards…
Review: Theology of My Life by John Frame
Five-decade seminary professor John Frame’s Theology of My Life (Cascade Books, 2017) is a self-proclaimed theological and apologetic memoir.
