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In A Time of Violence

Most people I urge to write during this time dismiss the idea, or don't register ...
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Getting Through This

Over the years I have used this blog space to mess around—with ideas, kinds of ...
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The Long Winter Solstice

In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Narnia is under an enchantment that makes it "always winter and never Christmas," meaning "always dark and never light," "always cold and never warm," "always dormant and never growing," "always fearful and never hopeful," "always paralyzed and never creative." ...

Two high school classmates take very different paths to negotiate the war that marked their coming of age. Decades later they reconnect, learn to listen to one another’s story. They travel in space and time to the Vietnam of their memories and seek to reconcile both with the reality of today.

SEEKING QUAN AM
A DUAL MEMOIR OF WAR AND VIETNAM

 

by Susan R. Dixon and Mark M. Smith

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