The challenges of a teaching career in the United States and in England are explored in this richly detailed memoir.
REVIEW: Dragons in my Classroom: A Teacher’s Memoir by Barbara Kennard
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REVIEW: Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss by Gayle Brandeis
Essays exploring life’s losses, transformations and the challenges of being a memoirist comprise a graceful and lyrical collection.
REVIEW: The Preventorium: A Memoir by Susan Annah Currie
A long-forgotten American health crisis caused by tuberculosis is examined in a memoir of a childhood forever changed by the disease.
REVIEW: Sacred Sendoffs: An Animal Chaplain’s Advice… by Sarah A. Bowen
An animal chaplain examines our relationship with many creatures – from those who provide us with food to those who become our pets.
The Cake by Michaela Evanow
I want to make an extravagant birthday cake that I won’t eat.
Blind Spots I Have (Not) Known by Judith Katzman
The drinking fountain on the left is a humming machine. The one on the right looks like a bathroom sink…
Goodbye America by Itoro Bassey
I went to a Buddhist monastery…to find relief from the usual suspects: workaholism, relationships, the 24-hour news cycle…
Another Day in Sales by Vincent Antonio Rendoni
My father comes in late from work, real late, humming the bars of Black Magic Woman…
Thrift Store Stories by Leighton Schreyer
These are the sweatpants I wore; when I tried to end my life…
Via Crucis Via Lucis by Cynthia Gralla
The nurse told me that if I resisted the insertion of my nasogastric tube, she’d restrain me and shove it up my nose. I was 11.
