Today read my review of Marj’s book.
Tomorrow read our interview in which Marj shares her thoughts and connections to farming, family, and the land.
Saturday, read an excerpt from the beginning of “A Place to Come Home To.”
My good friend Alethea Eason is a marvelous author of the children’s book HUNGRY. We met in Northern California’s Lake County. I first moved to St. Louis and now she’ll be moving to teach in Chile, South America in February…and continue writing her next book in the series, STARVED. Click here to go to the…
Birth Order Blues: How Parents Can Help their Children Meet the Challenges of their Birth Order by Meri Wallace. Birth Order Blues is a truly useful book–for any family member at any age. Here I am, a middle-aged woman with no biologiacal children, yet I find the information useful which Meri Wallace presents so clearly…
On my recent trip to San Francisco I stayed at the Hotel Carlton and met a wonderful young man behind the desk the first night of my visit. Theo McKinney has agreed to be my guest on Riehlife. We’re starting by discussing the books on the coffee tables in the hotel lobby and will continue…
Technological change totally changes how we all live, how we think—it produces huge consciousness shifts. Hal Zina Bennett is the author of over 31 successful fiction and non-fiction books on creativity, health, shamanism, and personal development. He teaches seminars throughout the U.S. and has support groups for writers in four states. As a creativity and…
BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA by Dorothy Allison. In this powerful book of suffering, strength, and grace, family love provides all of the above. The most powerful aspect of Allison’s book for me is her ability to remain loyal to truth, and Bone’s ability to remain loyal to a family ripped through with flaws, and that…
From Chapter 1, “A Place to Come Home To,” by Marj Casswell (go here to buy the book) For years every pack of cigarettes I opened took me back to our tobacco barn. As the red plastic encircling the pack tore away and the silver paper lifted, I would stand under two-foot long leaves drying…
Layers of Marj-cake.