He’d had a few rocky years after Mom died but, prior to his death, he’d been leading the high life in Las Vegas, active and independent…
And Then There Was Dad: A Supplement for the Baby Boomer Guidebooks by Marsh Rose
REVIEW: The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon
Everybody knows Batman. We just don’t all know the same Batman. He’s weathered quite a few changes in the past 78 years.
REVIEW: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by 14th Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Douglas Abrams
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World (Avery, September 2016), is His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s, gift to the world.
REVIEW: The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My Childlessness by Elliot Jager
As the heart-wrenching experience of infertility gains more public attention, many of the voices belong to women. But Elliot Jager’s multi-layered memoir, The Pater takes a different tack.
Big Wigs by Colter Jackson
After they went home at night, my mother brought me with her to the factory to clean up after the Big Wigs, not to teach me how to clean, but to teach me how not to spend my life…
On Smoking by William Thompson
We were gathered one afternoon in the Coopers’ tiny living room. The second oldest, who couldn’t have been much more than sixteen, offered me a puff on his cigarette.
Newborn Sparrow by Teri McDowell Ott
Heading out the driveway, my finger searched for the START button on my sports watch as I prepared to stretch my body into a long mid-morning run.
Wild Things by Laura B. Johnsrude
We peered into tidal pools, kneeling to get our noses up close, to watch creeping snails and huddled mussels, skimming our fingers over carpets of barnacles, stuck like superglue to the rocks.
Hallowed and Hollow by Morgan Kayser
People died here…for a cause many of them didn’t fully understand or believe in. Young boys of 17, no older than my high school students, enlisted thinking the war would be some grand adventure
Maternity Cave by Michele Leavitt
The Fish and Game folks were hauling lights and bins out of their trucks when we arrived for the Jonesville, Florida, bat count of 2006.
