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Tag Archives: childhood
Privilege: A Problematic Paradigm: Issues And Alternatives: Part Two
[Note: See previous discussion here if you have not before.] Having briefly introduced the subjected of privilege and presenting some introductory critique of it, I thought it would be worthwhile for us to spend a bit of time discussing exactly … Continue reading
Book Review: A Confederate Girl: The Diary Of Carrie Berry, 1864
A Confederate Girl: The Diary Of Carrie Berry, 1864, edited by Kerry Graves This book is one that I found deeply fascinating. On the one hand, the content of the book is not stellar in that it does not even … Continue reading
Posted in American Civil War, American History, Book Reviews, History
Tagged childhood, civil war, memoir
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Book Review: Educated
Educated, by Tara Westover I have to admit that when I started reading this book that I was a bit concerned about the tack that it was going to take. I figured that it was a given that the book … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, childhood, education, family, Mormonism, research
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A Tale Of Two Feet
When I was a child growing up in rural Central Florida, one of the many ways that the neighborhood kids kept ourselves amused was to imagine ourselves as members of the X-Men. For some reason, I ended up being Professor … Continue reading
Book Review: To No Man’s Glory
To No Man’s Glory: A Child’s Journey From Holocaust To Healing: A Memoir, by Vincent (Arturs Lejnieks) Benson with Victoria Harnish Benson I must admit that I am no stranger to this sort of memoir. In the larger sense of … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood, Judaism, Latvia, memoir, PTSD, World War II
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Book Review: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir), by Jenny Lawson I lost a good hour to two of sleep in order to finish this book in a timely fashion. Was it worth the lost sleep? As I sit … Continue reading
Baby Talk
The concept of the movie Baby Geniuses always bothered me, with the idea that children had some kind of telepathic communication that was lost when verbalization began. Rather than seeing talking as a step back from some sort of idealized … Continue reading
Dalla Dalla, Or Different Just Like Everybody Else
In life there are at least two kinds of difference. There are differences we choose for ourselves and those differences that are forced on us by others. And, as might be imagined, we tend to feel very differently about those … Continue reading
Book Review: The Path To The Spiders’ Nests
The Path To The Spiders’ Nests, by Italo Calvino It makes sense that Italo Calvino wrote this book early in his writing career, as it has the sex and violence that one would expect from someone who was an immature … Continue reading
On The Development Of A Personal Writing Style
As a longtime writer, it is difficult to ponder when and where it was that I acquired my personal style as a writer. My earliest writing is shrouded in the mist of my early childhood. By the time I was … Continue reading