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Ten Snapshots from My Day

Ten Snapshots from My Day

by MarianBeaman | Jun 11, 2025 | blog, book review, Literature, Neighborhood / Environment, Nostalgia, Quotations, Reflection, Tips, Uncategorized

My home is open today. You are welcome to step inside. Come on in!       After breakfast, I move to the blue velvet chair, the one I use for meditation, Bible reading and prayer with names of people I know and care about written on a prayer card. Sort...
How Nature Heals: The Gift of Spring

How Nature Heals: The Gift of Spring

by MarianBeaman | May 28, 2025 | blog, book review, Family / Nostalgia, Romance, Uncategorized

Once Upon  a  Time . . . . . . in a land far away lived a king and queen in a beautiful palace. They had everything in the whole world to make them happy, but the queen was sick and very sad.     She sat in her chair by the window and thought, “Oh, I wish I...
True Love Finds a Way: Walking the Salt Path

True Love Finds a Way: Walking the Salt Path

by MarianBeaman | May 14, 2025 | Award, blog, book review, British History, Conflict, Memory, Quotations, Travel, Uncategorized

What if you lost your home? lost your livelihood? had a dire diagnosis?   With triple trauma, Raynor Winn, armed with Paddy Dillon’s guidebook and husband Moth with a copy of Beowulf, embark on a 630-mile walk on the sea-swept South West Coast Path. From Somerset...
Belle da Costa Greene: A Woman of Two Worlds

Belle da Costa Greene: A Woman of Two Worlds

by MarianBeaman | Mar 14, 2025 | blog, book review, Coming of Age, Education, Novel writing, Novel writing, Quotations

In Honor of Women’s History Month 2025   Belle da Costa Greene, courtesy of J. P. Morgan Exhibitions   My Review In the lush world of literature and the arts, librarian Ms. Belle da Costa Greene rises along with the fortunes of New York financier and...
Should I Write a Novel?

Should I Write a Novel?

by MarianBeaman | Mar 5, 2025 | blog, book review, Coming of Age, Literature, Memory, Novel writing, Novel writing, Tips, Uncategorized

When I retired from college teaching, my colleagues gifted me with an illustrated Alice in Wonderland.      Last week when I pulled this book from the shelf, I flipped through the illustrations, focusing on the characters, especially the March Hare. Why?...
Two Novelists and an Author with her Grandson

Two Novelists and an Author with her Grandson

by MarianBeaman | Sep 25, 2024 | blog, book review, Uncategorized

Readers & Writers!    I’m always on a reading spree, but today I pause to share some of my best finds with YOU!   Novelist Alice Hoffman Reading Alice Hoffman’s historical fiction is always a treat for me. Her prose glows as she probes the magic...
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