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Pearlsong Press - A Life Interrupted: Living with Brain Injury by Louise Mathewson

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Living with Brain Injury. 124 pp ISBN 9781597190558 $15.95. Adobe PDF, EPUB and Mobipocket Ebook. ISBN 9781597190565 $3.99. Library Book Request Form. A collection of poems chronicling the author's recovery from a brain damaging car accident, with a list of journaling therapy writing prompts and other resources she found helpful in transcending trauma. Purchase directly from Pearlsong Press. Purchase from these retailers:. Original trade paperback and Kindle. From The Book Depository. Author of Children ...

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the chair lady | pull up a chair

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Pull up a chair. A few favorite chairs. The book: Slowing Time. Where wisdom gathers, poetry unfolds and divine light is sparked…. The chair lady, you ask. my name is barbara mahany. for nearly 30 years, i was a reporter and feature writer at the chicago tribune. now, i’m an all-on-my-own writer. i’m married to the tribune’s pulitzer-prize-winning architecture critic, blair kamin, and the mother of two heavenly boys, will, who is 18 and away at college, and teddy, who is 10. I walked home from that lunch...

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“Lawrence’s daughter” | monkheart

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Quieting the heart in a noisy world. Asymp; 8 Comments. Dad had rough, worn hands that worked hard and were used to holding a Skillsaw, hammer, folding ruler, all the tools of his trade. He drove nails like no one else I’ve seen one tap to set it, and two whacks to sink it. And fast! A handful of nails would disappear rapidly tap, whack, whack! Tap, whack, whack! It was astonishing how quickly he worked. Why did you marry Mom? What was it about her that you loved so very much? What were your dreams, Dad?

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Becoming Odyssa | monkheart

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Quieting the heart in a noisy world. In What I'm Reading. Asymp; 6 Comments. Jennifer Pharr Davis; Appalachian Trail. For years my husband Tom has teased about wanting to hike the Appalachian Trail. In the Great Smoky Mountains we actually walked an eensy part of it and tried to imagine what it would be like trying to walk all day with everything you need to survive on your back, and sleep in discomfort all night in a wooden shelter or tent, for 2,175 difficult miles. Provides it, even if you know you&#8...

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All Over but the Shoutin’ | monkheart

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Quieting the heart in a noisy world. All Over but the Shoutin’. In What I'm Reading. Asymp; 4 Comments. With thanks to my husband’s ex-wife Ann, I’ve just finished reading. All Over but the Preview. By Rick Bragg, a then-reporter for the. Who won the Pulitzer in 1996. It was published in 1997, so I’m a little behind. Ann picked it up at a book sale (you can see the “clearance” tag on the cover) and thought her ex, my husband Tom, would enjoy it. About New York: “It is true that there is something a...

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If you love someone, tell them | monkheart

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Quieting the heart in a noisy world. If you love someone, tell them. Asymp; 11 Comments. Sunday we experienced a very powerful event at our rather “decent and orderly” church (as the Presbyterians say.) (We’re not called the “frozen chosen” for nothing.). Our pastor, Alex, preached his usual excellent sermon, this one about Jesus’s last supper. Here is the sermon outline if you’d like to read it: Dinner with Friends. I saw more than a few damp eyes as people went past. There is always a long line of peop...

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Where do they learn this stuff? | monkheart

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Quieting the heart in a noisy world. Where do they learn this stuff? Asymp; 3 Comments. We were at one of our “Big Family Dinners,” as granddaughter Maddie likes to call them, at her grandmother’s house — Ann, the ex-wife of my husband Tom. (It’s complicated. I wrote about it here in Thank-full. 8220;Maddie, no! Back in the living room, I went to work at the coffee table. Just then, Tom came over to see if Maddie wanted to play. 8221; she asked, sotto voce,. 8220; Are you taping it. Both of these littlek...

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work | monkheart

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Quieting the heart in a noisy world. It was a “good day”. July 2, 2016. I confess, I had been dreading it. Vacation Bible Camp (VBC) was this week at my “work church” (where I …. Continue reading →. A beautiful day for a walk … sort of. March 13, 2016. I work for a church now, and at a church. When I was interviewing, I was told about the parameters …. Continue reading →. Back at the Front Desk. August 2, 2015. Continue reading →. 8220;I got it”. March 26, 2013. Continue reading →. February 9, 2013.