"Reading Shana Thornton's highly original novel will make you want to get your own family stories to the page. You'll meet larger-than-life characters like Hoot and Zona, Aunt Cora and Jane, Miss Emy, and Nenny, the matriarch, who rolls her own cigarettes and knows all the secrets of the family medicine wheel. You may even find yourself signing up for a writing class like the one that sets the narrator, young Robin Ballard, to interviewing her aunts and grandmother, tracking down her homeless father, and digging out the family secrets, lost journals, and recipes that make Poke Sallet Queen &...
"Reading Shana Thornton's highly original novel will make you want to get your own family stories to the page. You'll meet larger-than-life characters...
Seasons of Balance: On Creativity & Mindfulness explores the creative life...through changing relationships, fitness practices, meditations, aging, gratitude, and more. As one season helps us to restore our creative practices, so does another season arouse our artistic endeavors and still another that stimulates us to action. We need all of the seasons to meet the goals we have set for ourselves. We hope you will use this book to inspire you with affirmations, prompt meditations, and/or as a creativity journal. "'Seasons of Balance' is an exquisite work of writing that encourages you to...
Seasons of Balance: On Creativity & Mindfulness explores the creative life...through changing relationships, fitness practices, meditations, aging,...
BreatheYourOMBalance: Writings about Yoga Volume One celebrates the life-changing practice of yoga in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Author S. Teague is joined by 30 contributors in this debut volume. From gong meditations to yoga teacher training programs abroad, from new parents who want to instill confidence in their children to women who are reclaiming their lives after loss, these writers reveal how yoga created new pathways of self- awareness and creative expressions.
"BreatheYourOMBalance: Writings about Yoga by Women is an incredible collection of individual...
BreatheYourOMBalance: Writings about Yoga Volume One celebrates the life-changing practice of yoga in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Author S. Te...
