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Literary Reflections

Essential Reading: Gift Recommendations

There’s nothing like a festive tale to get you in the Christmas mood and this month’s Essential Reading recommendations include a modern spin on a classic holiday story. Check that…

Essential Reading, Literary Reflections | December 2018 | By Nerys Copelovitz


A Story Worth Telling

Parenting a child with early Alzheimer’s-like symptoms leaves little energy for anything else, I discovered, so I shifted my priority from recreating what had been, to nurturing what could be.…

Essays, Literary Reflections | December 2018 | By Karen DeBonis


Dear Virginia

My plays are colored by motherhood. My poetry, a fairly recent undertaking, comes back to themes of mothering again and again. My two girls were with me throughout the entirety…

Essays, Literary Reflections | November 2018 | By Karen Morash


Essential Reading: Books In A Row

Sometimes a story is so big it can’t be contained in one volume but needs a whole series to allow the plot to unwind. This month we recommend four series…

Essential Reading, Literary Reflections | November 2018 | By Nerys Copelovitz


Poetry or Prose: Writing and Motherhood

Rather than force a return to the poems I was working on, I needed to write differently. I needed to intentionally mark the rupture between past and present, before becoming…

Essays, Literary Reflections | October 2018 | By Dara Barnat


Essential Reading: Desiring Motherhood

This month we’re all about motherhood and our reading recommendations include a novel about a reluctant mother, one guide for mothers-to-be and another for parents in the trenches. Enjoy!

Essential Reading, Literary Reflections | October 2018 | By Nerys Copelovitz


Book Therapy

The travelers were much younger than I am now, from different countries, and different time periods, but they had all arrived at a turning point in their lives and needed…

Essays, Literary Reflections | September 2018 | By Daniela Loose


Essential Reading: Young Adult

This month’s Essential Reading recommendations include both modern and classic young adult novels. These stories of adventure and romantic love are just too good to leave on the YA shelves.…

Essential Reading, Literary Reflections | September 2018 | By Nerys Copelovitz


Rage Against the Melancholia

I used to be precious about my writing time. Everything needed to be just so before I could start laying one word after another. My sacred place had to be…

Essays, Literary Reflections | June 2018 | By Dave Patterson


Beautiful Words

That pretentious girl, who rolled her eyes at her mom’s Danielle Steele novels, would have scoffed at the mom I’ve become, engaged in a heated debate with my kids about…

Essays, Literary Reflections | June 2018 | By Meadoe Hora


Essential Reading: Father’s Day

We’ve chosen five of our favorite reads about fathers for this months Essential Reading. They include: a daughter’s account of her Hollywood father’s life, a father’s investigation into the food…

Essential Reading, Literary Reflections | June 2018 | By Nerys Copelovitz


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