Tag: Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love–A Spiritual Memoir for Thanksgiving?
My husband Stuart and I have just worked together to make two pumpkin pies, two apple pies, and broccoli, curry cheese soup. We are waiting for our daughter Kate and her boyfriend Nik to arrive from Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving weekend. It seems fitting–maybe it was all that cooking–that this would be the night to write [...]
Posted: November 26th, 2008 under My Reviews, Spiritual Memoir.
Tags: divorce, Elizabeth Gilbert, gratitude, spiritual autobiography
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Little Heathens–Perfect Memoir for a New Depression?
“Ralph Waldo Emerson could have learned a thing or two about self reliance from my great-great-grandparents,” asserts Mildred Armstrong Kalish near the beginning of her book Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm in the Great Depression. I knew I would love this book when I read those lines, and [...]
Posted: November 8th, 2008 under Classic Memoir/Autobiography, My Reviews, Personal Reflections.
Tags: barefoot, cows, Depression, Elizabeth Gilbert, farm, hard times, high spirits, Iowa, Mildred Armstrong Kalish
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Today was Blogging-in-WordPress Lesson #2 with my son Anthony. I wanted to know how to embed a video, so he showed me how. Yippee! Here is Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love.
Posted: September 21st, 2008 under Memoir in the News.
Tags: Anthony, Elizabeth Gilbert, video
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