The Mindful Reader ran in the New Hampshire Sunday News today. Good news for longtime readers: you can take a link to the paper and read the article for free, with no restrictions on how many times you can visit the site in a month. Which is good, because the column will appear every other Sunday.
Here’s this week’s lead, so I can entice you a bit:
“I n the acknowledgements of his book “Wide-Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family’s Lives Forever,” John Marshall thanks his ninth-grade English teacher at Manchester High School Central, Mrs. Singer, in whose class he says “a whole new world opened up for me” which led to his becoming a writer. We can all be grateful to Mrs. Singer, because Marshall’s memoir is an interesting, inspiring read. ”
I also review SNUH MFA grad Kenneth Butler’s debut novel Holy Fool. Take the link. Check out the column. Let me know what you think!
Awesome job, Deb, congrats!
Deb, Mr. Marshall’s book sound inspiring, thanks for sharing. I have spent the last 20+ years in the Navy, exploring the world, but often feel I haven’t experienced the real world and the people that make it amazing, instead just escaping the troubles we are fighting. I would love to follow the inspiration of this book and take my kids off the grid and give them a real education about the good people and lives we read so little about in the regular media. — steve
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Another great review from Deb. As I return on a sojourn to New England I hope to find Mr Marshall’s book and discover how it can inspire the next stage of my life’s journey. Are you ready, Jodee?