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December 7, 2016 by Sharon

This was NOT a good book to lug around an airport while traveling to Chicago this past weekend, but I had started it and want to finish it!! I have had this book for years, but had never read it. As a former educator, I’m always interested in stories like the Columbine massacre. This book […]

Grief Is The Thing With Feathers

August 15, 2016 by Sharon

I recently found a newly published book at my local library.  The title of the book caught my eye- Grief Is The Thing With Feathers by Max Porter.  It is a short book and I thought it would probably be some sort of parable or something.  It is a very unusual book, but there were […]

The Rainbow Comes and Goes

April 10, 2016 by Sharon

I love to read biographies and memoirs.  In fact for years, when I was working in education and raising my kids, I read more professional type books during the school year, but in the summer I always found a long biography to read about someone.  I am fascinated with people’s lives.  How the simplest encounter […]

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After her husband’s sudden and unexpected death, Sharon McCuistian found herself a widow at the age of 48. With two grown children in college, Sharon had to find a way to live in her new reality. She turned to the things she loved to help in her grief: faith, family, and friends. Her love of words and writing became the cathartic venue by which she began to process her loss. It is through her grief journey that Now Choose Life was born. Read More

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