As the days shorten, it is time to curl up before the proverbial fireplace (whether you actually are blessed with a fireplace or not) with a warm blanket and lose yourself for a while in a good book.
I highly recommend my book, The is No Future in the Past: A Travel Memoir. Of course I am not prejudiced or anything, when I say it is well worth your time.
It is a book I never intended to write. I have always had a dim view of confessional memoir, spilling one's family history all over the pages in gory detail. I want to say to some of these writers that they should get a good therapist to work out their issues and not expect their readers to serve in that capacity. But when I began to look at favorite books I have read, I was surprised how many memoirs I have read and loved.
I was just playing around writing short essays and bringing them to a writing group whose support and critique I value. Somewhere in the process, the writing took over and the individual pieces began to acquire an order and direction. This book is the result.
You can purchase it direct from us. Just email us. Or at this point, we have begun putting it in some of the local independent bookstores: Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts in Fridley, the St. Paul Benedictine Spirituality Center, Loyola Spirituality Center in St. Paul, and The Bookcase in Wayzata. Gradually, the list of available places will expand (we will keep you posted). And eventually, I hope you can purchase it at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com.
Remember - curl up some evening with a warm blanket and give it a read! Let me know what you think.
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