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Bailey’s Café
Baileys Café by Gloria Naylor -A powerful read – quite harrowing in some places, uplifting in others. The 229 pages read more like a series of interconnected stories than a novel. Each story is different in the telling, the voice, … Continue reading
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Tagged anger, Baileys Café, book review, disappointment, fiction, Gloria Naylor, healing, joy, new years resolution, On My Bookshelf, page turner, resignation, Struggles, sympathy
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Healing Family Wounds
Fifty years ago, our mothers’ bitter estrangement divided us daughters. But after I expressed sympathy over her mother’s death, my cousin mailed me a sprig of an aloe vera plant as a peace offering. Our shared great-grandmother had carried the … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged aloe vera plant, connection, estrangement, family, Family Heirlooms, Grief, healing project, house plants, love, peace offering, plant cuttings, plants, siblings, sympathy
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Real Life of an MSW 