Tag Archives: childhood

Book Review: A Confederate Girl: The Diary Of Carrie Berry, 1864

Posted on March 21, 2020 by

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 →

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Book Review: Educated

Posted on February 20, 2020 by

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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A Tale Of Two Feet

Posted on June 17, 2019 by

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 →

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Book Review: To No Man’s Glory

Posted on June 12, 2019 by

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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Book Review: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened

Posted on April 4, 2019 by

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 →

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Baby Talk

Posted on March 14, 2019 by

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 →

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Dalla Dalla, Or Different Just Like Everybody Else

Posted on March 9, 2019 by

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 →

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Book Review: The Path To The Spiders’ Nests

Posted on January 30, 2019 by

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 →

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On The Development Of A Personal Writing Style

Posted on January 29, 2019 by

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 →

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A Man Who Things Happen To

Posted on December 9, 2018 by

One of the most notable aspects of Isaac is that he is a man who things happen to.  There are some people in scripture who are best known for what they do.  We imagine Moses holding his staff over the … Continue reading →

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