Alt-Reich: Silent No More on Closet Nazis
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Book Review: Family Tree by Susan Wiggs
Susan Wiggs has kicked it up another notch with Family Tree. We’ve all had those key moments when our lives hit the reset button. Dreams are shattered. Plans go off the […]
Book Review: All Summer Long
Nobody writes a beach book like Dorothea Benton Frank, and this year’s All Summer Long will transport you from Manhattan to Sullivan’s Island and other haunts of the 1%. The plot […]
Book Review: The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
The Broadway play Hamilton has set me off on a frenzy of books about First Lady Louisa Adams (wife of John Quincy), Alexander Hamilton, and Julia Ward Howe (“Battle Hymn of […]
Book Review: A Girl’s Guide to Moving On
Debbie Macomber is back and better than ever! A Girl’s Guide to Moving On was inspired in part by Wayne Macomber’s need for sunshine. His wife reluctantly ~ at first […]
Book Review: So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
It’s all about psychological control. – Dan O’Hara, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed Jon Ronson was inspired to write a book about shame after he’d been cyberbullied on Twitter. So You’ve […]
Book Review: Untied by Meredith Baxter
Meredith Baxter’s memoir, Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering, is a refreshingly candid examination of the cost of shame. Shame has been a powerful weapon of control since the days […]
Book Review: Brave Enough
Desperation is unsustainable. – Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough Cheryl Strayed is an abuse survivor akin to Grandma Gatewood. Her hike of the Pacific Coast Trail was featured in the book and […]
Book Review: Orphan Train
My great-grandfather, William Van Ardsdale Drake, was a teenager living on a boat on the Hudson River in Manhattan before he was shipped on a Children’s Aid Society orphan train […]
Happy 4th of July: Celebrating Independence
Chicago’s fireworks celebrations are always epic, and they are what I miss most about living in Chicago. There’s something equally epic about seeing Lady Liberty in the midst of the […]
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