Book Review: By the Book: A Reader’s Guide to Life by Ramona Koval
There’s something so engaging about Ramona Koval. It’s not entirely down to her extraordinary intelligence, her warmth, or even her absolute love of books: a perception of the world through words that...
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Book Review: My Inappropriate Life*: *Some Material Not Suitable for...
Perhaps best known now for her work on Chelsea Lately and After Lately, writer, comedian, mother of three Heather McDonald knows what sells books. She makes sure to load every rift of her latest, My...
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Book Review: The Long, Steep Path by Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Long, Steep Path: Everyday Inspiration from the Author of Pay It Forward is Catherine Ryan Hyde’s long-awaited memoir (I’ve been waiting for it for almost a decade, so I assume others have as...
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Book Review: Outlaw Platoon by Sean Parnell & John Bruning
Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan by Sean Parnell and John Bruning is a non-fiction book about Mr. Parnell’s experience as a platoon leader...
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Voice from the Past: A Diary of the Second Boer War
Reading My Father’s Boer War Diary Dated 1900 Those who have done me the honor of reading my articles in the past, must have noticed how often they have been about my father – which is strange, since...
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Book Review: This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can’t by Augusten...
I hate self-help books. It’s not just because I feel they are basically about taking advantage of other’s misfortune or on the whole useless. No, the real reason I hate them is what the words self-help...
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Interview: Emma Clay, Author of Revived by Grace
Emma Clay is a writer who shares her own experiences about her encounters with herself and her bad decisions. She tells of how she transformed a life that seemed hopeless and seeks to give answers to...
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Two Journalists, an International Idol, My Father, and a Very Handsome Lad...
Five Men Who Shaped My Life, Whether They Knew It or Not The Editor First of all there was William Hills, at 80, South Africa’s “Grand Old Man of Journalism,” who succumbed to my pleas to give me a job...
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Things My Mother Taught Me (Though I Never LIstened)
An Epiphany On the 3rd of May, 2003, I noted in my “Daily Light”, a little book which, unless I was unconscious or having a baby, I have read day and night since I was 13: “Today, 20 years ago my...
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Book Review: ‘Love and Fatigue in America’ by Roger King
Roger King’s intimate account of falling ill with the disease known as chronic fatigue syndrome – CFS in the U.S., myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) elsewhere – is a rarity. One would expect a memoir...
View ArticleSpotlight on Dennis Milam Bensie, Author of ‘One Gay American’
Dennis Milam Bensie is One Gay American. Born in the 1960s and raised with traditional values in Robinson, Illinois, Bensie desperately wants romance, a beautiful wedding and a baby to carry on the...
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Book Review: ‘River Bend Chronicle’ by Ben Miller
Ben Miller is known largely as an essayist. He has published in AGNI, the Antioch Review, the Kenyon Review and other journals. His essays have been reprinted in Best American Essays. Miller lives in...
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Among My Dearest Friends Since Childhood: The Natural Order of Lepidoptera
“Butterfly tell me, pray, what you do all the day…” Perhaps it started when we sang that song in Kindergarten, many years ago, and I cannot remember a time when I was not ‘hooked’ on butterflies. My...
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Book Review: ‘One Gay American: A Memoir’ by Dennis Milam Bensie
Dennis Milam Bensie is One Gay American. The memoir is told within groups of years from the 60s until the present time, including events happening in the news focusing on the issues of his own life....
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Interview with Julia Ibbotson, Author of ‘The Old Rectory: Escape to a...
Julia Ibbotson is the award-winning author of The Old Rectory: Escape to a Country Kitchen, first published to acclaim in the USA and now re-launched with a new cover by her new English publisher in...
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Book Review of ‘Echoes in the Universe: A Spiritual Memoir’ by Leonard Goodwin
As I read Echoes in the Universe: A Spiritual Memoir, by Leonard Goodwin, I was drawn to the notion that I was engaging in a greatly unique piece of work. Goodwin’s autobiography is written as a...
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Book Review: ‘The Boxer’s Story: Fighting for My Life in the Nazi Camps’ by...
The Boxer’s Story: Fighting for My Life in the Nazi Camps is a memoir of Nathan Shapow as told to Bob Harris. Bob Harris is a sports writer and sports editor, Nathan Shapow is a retired painter living...
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Book Review: ‘Don’t Give up, You Can Make It If You Try, You Can Win’ by Joe...
Joe Simon used to be one of the great rhythm and blues artists of American pop music. He won a Grammy for his song “The Chokin’ Kind” and was nominated for a number of other awards. He garnered gold...
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Interview with Jay D Roberts, MD, Author of ‘Break the Chains, Transforming...
Dr. Jay D Roberts, MD is a board-certified physiatrist, a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation. He has always been drawn to helping those with pain and wounds. He just could not heal his...
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Interview with Susan Joyce, Author of ‘The Lullaby Illusion: A Journey of...
Welcome Susan. Thank you for taking the time to share some information about yourself with our readers. Let’s get started, shall we? Susan, I’ve been perusing the various websites and web-pages of...
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