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If the title of this post snagged your attention, good! It was meant to. Actually, I fudged a bit on the truth here…for effect. It really wasn’t Oprah who saved my life, but Oprah’s magazine, and it was my writing life, not my life life. To be specific, it’s the July issue that worked the magic on me, [...]
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I just finished reading The Book that Changed My Life, a collection of brief essays by 71 authors about, well, the books that changed their lives. That got me thinking about my love of reading and books that have shaped me. Here’s my story… It all began with Dick and Jane, of course. First grade. [...]
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I’ve been thinking about my father. Tomorrow is his birthday, and he would have been 86. He died 19 years ago, when he was only 67, of complications associated with Parkinson’s Disease, a tragic, crippling illness that had sapped his mobility and quality of life since his early 50s. His name was Donald Glen Parrett. [...]
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