November 24, 2009
· Filed under Author Interviews, Book Reviews · Tagged cooking, diabetes, diet, happiness, healing, healthy diet, physical health, recipes, storytelling
Taste of Home Cookbook: Cooks Who Care Edition
Edited by Catherine M. Cassidy and Diane Werner
Published September 8th, 2009 (Hardcover) Reader’s Digest
The top of my refrigerator is bedecked with dozens of unthumbed cookbooks, but there’s something about The Taste of Home Cookbook: Cooks Who Care Edition that makes me feel — well, home. I interviewed one of the editors today, Catherine Cassidy. She says the cookbook is for novice cooks all the way up to the experts. There are more than 1,400 affordable recipes — all from readers, and then tested in the Taste of Home kitchens.
What I love is Read the rest of this entry »
November 23, 2009
· Filed under Author Interviews, Book Reviews · Tagged 12-step, abuse, alcoholism, career, healing, humor, inspiration, relationships, self awareness, storytelling, trauma, writing
Mary Karr and Diana Page Jordan on PDX.FM
By Mary Karr
Published November 3, 2009 (Hardcover) Harper
She’s tough, wise-cracking, and I wouldn’t have been surprised if she’d pulled a lady-like pistol from her purse while routing for a pen, at Powell’s City of Books, where we met for the interview.
The closest ex-Texan Mary Karr comes to that image is Read the rest of this entry »
November 20, 2009
· Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged abuse, murder, Northwest crime stories, relationships, serial killers, storytelling, therapy, trauma, writing
But I Trusted You…and Other True Cases. Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 14
By Ann Rule
Published November 24, 2009 (Paperback) Pocket Books
I adore Ann Rule. Let’s just get it out there. She is the slightly-older female relative who always tells the truth. I’ve interviewed her in person at least a half-dozen times, maybe more, and every time, I am spellbound by her stories. These cases that she profiles that — to me — are psychologically mysterious. As in, how could that man do that, and how could that woman believe him?
There was one December, I recall, in the back of a chilly bookstore, after our interview, Read the rest of this entry »
November 19, 2009
· Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged abuse, alcoholic, alcoholism, cherry, drunk, goals, happiness, healing, humor, inspiration, Lit, loony bin, love, mother, poetry, relationships, self awareness, the Liar's Club, writing
Lit: A Memoir
By Mary Karr
Published November 3, 2009 (Hardcover) Harper
Mary Karr changed the rules of memoir when she wrote The Liars’ Club, she continued that tone in Cherry, and topped it off with her newest memoir, LIT .
In LIT, she brazenly reprises enough of her earlier life to set the stage for the emotional strip she does for the current memoir. Karr exposes Read the rest of this entry »
November 18, 2009
· Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged abuse, audience, career, confessions, fearless, goals, how to speak, humor, inspiration, optimism, passion, public speaking, self awareness, storytelling, trauma, writing
Confessions of a Public Speaker
By Scott Berkun
Published November 10, 2009 (Hardcover) O’Reilly Media
First, Scott Berkun busts the myths in Confessions of a Public Speaker. It is lost in the annals of history who first said to imagine your audience naked — or why. He argues that imagining seeing your audience naked will be useful only if you are deadly-dull. Otherwise, that method is going send scattered crazy thoughts through your head, likely making it impossible to focus.
Berkun traces the “imagine your audience naked” advice to Read the rest of this entry »
November 17, 2009
· Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged abuse, alcoholism, blessing, career, fearless, fiction, friendship, goals, happiness, healing, inspiration, joy, law of attraction, law of harmony, magic, manifest, mother, relationships, self awareness, transform
The Gentle Art of Blessing: A Simple Practice That Will Transform You and Your World
Published November 10, 2009 (Paperback) Atria Books/Beyond Words
More Info: Pierre Pradervand
My mind churns out dozens of thank yous in a day, in addition to those I say verbally. And, this puts me in a lovely, almost unshakably powerful place. But nothing prepared me for the stunning prescription this book provides, The Gentle Art of Blessing. The transformational power of blessing is as immutable as is the law of gravity.
For the past week, I’ve been troubled. Read the rest of this entry »
November 16, 2009
· Filed under Author Interviews · Tagged abuse, alcoholism, happiness, healing, inspiration, intuitive, manifest, passion, psychic, readings, self awareness, storytelling, therapy, writing
You Know Your Way Home
By Suzanne Jauchius
When I know I’m going to interview a psychic, that abused little girl that I was, gets giddy, thinking she is finally going to be rescued. But this afternoon, as soon as I heard Suzanne Jauchius’ voice, my power snapped back, filling my body once again.
That tells me a lot right there. Suzanne has an empowering spirit. Read the rest of this entry »
November 13, 2009
· Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged abuse, alcoholism, brain, healing, inspiration, intimacy, love addiction, rape, relationships, romance, self awareness, sex addiction, stepfather, therapy, trauma
Is It Love or Is It Addiction? The Book That Changed the Way We Think About Romance and Intimacy
By Brenda Schaeffer
Published May 2009 (Paperback, Third Printing) Hazelden
In this space that used to be my dining room, I have this fabulous stack of new and nearly new books. Today, I was compelled to read Is It Love or Is It Addiction?
I grew up in cruelty. I was trained, in essence, to accept, even attract, relationships that feel Read the rest of this entry »
November 12, 2009
· Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged abuse, alcoholism, career, Christmas, gay, happiness, healing, holiday stories, humor, inspiration, relationships, self awareness, storytelling, therapy, writing
You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
By Augusten Burroughs
Published October 27, 2009 (Hardcover) St. Martin’s Press
First thing to know. You Better Not Cry is not a children’s book. Even if it does open with Augusten Burroughs as a kid pondering the relationship between Santa and Jesus. He writes, “It’s just that, most of the year, Jesus is naked except for his little rag and his thorn hat, and then on Christmas, he puts on his good red suit.”
OMG.
Oh, yeah, God. Augusten can’t figure out Read the rest of this entry »
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