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We’re going to need a bigger boat

We need a bigger boat now, because clearly the one we have been rowing is ...
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DNF (Did Not Finish)

Often on book-reading discussion boards someone will ask about DNF books. Do you have DNF ...
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Getting Through This

Over the years I have used this blog space to mess around—with ideas, kinds of writing, connections, seasonal musings. My categories have morphed over time and have held various kinds of writing in a loose organization that makes occasional sense. That changed on the morning of November 6. It has taken me 10 days to pick myself up enough to think of next steps because it is either come up with a new approach or ...

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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