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Breath for the Soul: Self-Care Steps to Wellness
I wanted to share this new self-help book Breath for the Soul: Self-Care Steps to Wellness I received a copy of in exchange for a review. Last week I decided that I was going to start taking time for myself. I’ve implemented a rule in my home that the first hour I am up for David and Charlie not to speak to me or bother me. This is my time. Just as the hour before I go to bed is. In these two hours I am to do something I enjoy. In the morning I make a cup of Coffee or Tea and find a place to curl up and…
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Staff Picks: 19 Books that Celebrate Black History
Save The Children sent me a great article today! As a mom of 3 bi-racial children I have learned the importance of inclusion for them. It can be hard to find good, uplifting books that also feature brown skin children. I am so appreciative of this article. I have included the first 5 picks. Check out their page for the rest of the 19! There are so many times to celebrate black authors from Black History Month to Juneteenth and throughout the year! These staff favorites make for excellent reads all year long. 1. Amazing Grace By Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch (Scholastic) Amazing Grace is an old school favorite about a…
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Chimera Vividly Captures Conflicting Emotions of Long-Term Cancer Survivorship
Sacramento, CA, February 2, 2023 — Few people have survived the nightmare of a stem cell transplant gone sideways. Fewer still have had the audacity to write about the miraculous yet bewildering experience of becoming a genetic chimera. Brad Buchanan breaks this taboo and offers readers eloquent, surrealistic and profoundly moving passages about his dramatic transformation and amazing recovery. Chimera, Buchanan’s fourth book of poems, tells in lyrically oblique confessions and hallucinatory vignettes the difficult but nevertheless wonderful history and aftermath of the author’s 2016 stem cell transplant. After a rocky and near-fatal beginning, the transplant enabled Buchanan to survive a malignant blood cancer through becoming a genetic chimera (his DNA was altered through the successful…
Living a simple lifestyle from the front porch
