After being poisoned by pesticides used in her area, Diane Ladd's lungs were so scarred that she was given only 6 months to live. Her daughter, actress Laura Dern, was told that getting her mother walking might help and give her mother more time, so they started going for walks together. Terrified that they were …
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I wanted to be a ballerina for a while when I was a kid. I studied ballet from about 5 years old til I started high school, and though I haven't done ballet since then, I still love it and love to go see ballet whenever I can. Sadly this year I couldn't go see …
If you are in Manhattan traveling Downtown in a car on Fifth Avenue or Seventh Avenue and you want to turn onto Tenth Street, you have to turn left. It's a one-way street, west to east. Left on Tenth is my way home. I was left on Tenth when my husband died, and after that, …
Continue reading Left On Tenth- A Second Chance At Life by Delia Ephron
"Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru." I was in my early teens when I first read Poe, which seems to be about the average time to start reading him. My copy of his stories had beautiful illustrations by Arthur Rackham, if I remember correctly, and I loved his dark stories of madness, horror …
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"PT Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus". There's just something about the circus, isn't there? I love books set in or that are about the circus. They always have an element of hard scrabble lives and magic. I think I'm not the only one. Everyone has heard of …
With the help of George Vecsey, Loretta Lynn wrote the story of her life 1976. It was a huge bestseller and has never been out of print. It was made into a film in 1980, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones, and last year marked the 40th anniversary of that film. (I have a …
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Extraordinary Canadians is a series of interviews written in the first person, so that reading it feels like each interviewee telling their own story to the reader. The authors names might sound familiar: Mansbridge is the former anchor of The National and Bulgutch was a producer at CBC. I was curious about this book and …
When Samuel was 15, he took on an odd job one Summer moving boxes, and had an accident that changed his life forever. One of the boxes had an improperly stored jar of sulfuric acid which exploded and splashed his face and body, scarring him for life. He was lucky to be alive, and to …
I love Dolly Parton. She's such an original and such a bright spark of honesty and kindness. She's funny, she's smart, she makes fun of herself and handles it brilliantly when others make fun of her. She never talks badly about others and has even been known to offer a helping hand to people who …
With the way the world is today, friendship is more important than ever, helping us through and keeping us sane, giving us the emotional support. I felt like this book would be a good one to read and share with you all right now, so I took it on without realising that it was written …
Continue reading Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
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