Tag: homosexuality
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WRITING AWAY THE GRIEF
Writing serves as my salve for grief. And today, I write to overcome the sadness threatening to envelop me. The mass shooting in Orlando hit me hard. Maybe because I lived near Orlando for thirty years. Maybe because the death of so many in one place horrified me. Maybe because someone with mental health issues…
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AUTHOR WEDNESDAY – PAULETTE MAHURIN
Welcome to Author Wednesday. We’re headed into the holiday season full blast, so I hope you’re all staying safe and sane. Today, I welcome Paulette Mahurin, the author of The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap, which has been described as a women’s Brokeback Mountain. In her latest novel, To Live Out Loud, she chronicles another historical persecution, this time of an…
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Book Review Friday – A Fitting Place
Mary Gottschalk’s first novel A Fitting Place wraps the reader in a familiar blanket in the opening pages. A lovely surprise awaited me as I began reading a story told a hundred different ways of a marriage breaking up when a husband falls for someone younger. Lindsey Chandler and her story of growth leaves the…