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Wandering Potatoes
Wandering Potatoes: Best Historical Novel of 2003, Award by High Country Friends of the Tuolumne County, California Library, 2004 Wandering Potatoes focuses on life choices made by five women in an Irish-American family: Kate ONeill, who in 1839, marries, against her fathers will, and emigrates to America; Brigid, daughter of Kate, who travels west in 1877 with her husband and children to witness the death of Crazy Horse; Eileen, Brigids daughter, who in 1900 leaves an Oregon convent after ten years as a nun; Helen, Eileens daughter, who sails in 1949 across an ocean with four children to join her husband; and Katie, daughter of Helen, who in 1969 turns her back on marriage to join political...
This Land
Out of the women's movement of the 1980's and 90's emerged small groups of women who purchased land together, usually in the country, sometimes in the wilderness. This Land, with its blend of fiction, memoir, poetry and essay, describes and reflects upon one such venture: eight women who bought 50 acres of Adirondack forestland in which they camped and built shelters, then more abiding homes. From diverse backgrounds they shared the American dream of "a place for us," a place where they could find both sanctuary and adventure, solidarity and solitude, change and support. These survivors of 60's and 70's ferment and activism anticipated the challenges of group living, but coming from cities, they had no idea how much they would be changed by their encounters with the nature which surrounded them--its storms and vistas, animal visits, tree energies, and powers of water, fire, stars, lightning. For each of the eight women these meetings with natural others provided discoveries which helped them chart the whole of their lives, while guiding them toward paths of environmental guardianship. This is a story about how place shapes friendship and friendship informs place.
Water Spies
Three unlikely conspiratorsan eleven-year-old girl, a retired government investigator, and an activist teacher--work together to block the privatization of a local spring for profit--by initiating action to prevent an out-of-town investor from establishing a water bottling plant. Their collaboration, within the contexts of community organizing and a natural disaster, leads to meaningful transformation for each of them. How they come to trust and depend upon each other provides a wellspring for wider, and riskier, actions. Their exchanges, in the contexts of community organizing and a natural disaster, lead to meaningful transformation for each of them. A tribute to the power and mystery of water. The largeness of spirit, thought, and heart is so clear in Water Spies. --Shirley Glubka, author of Return to a Meadow
A Writer's Guide
An updated, comprehensive guide for aspiring writers.From the first chapter:William Carlos Williams, poet and doctor, writes, "When I cannot write, I'm a sick man and want to die. The cause," he says, "is plain."Why do those of us who write feel this way about the process? Although the cause is plain to Dr. Williams, it may not be obvious to someone who chooses another way of expressing self, recording experience, processing, relating, meditating, discovering.Whatever our own personal motivations, writing is for many of us a way of self-healing, self-discovery, a path to understanding and empathizing with others and, perhaps if we're lucky, a mode of communication with a more expansive reali...
Where?
In Where? Xavy, the endearing narrator of Who? is invited by Grace, her old friend from the Baltimore womens community, to investigate the disappearance of a friends daughter. Their reunion in Vermont after twenty years of separation provides the home base for an inquiry leading Xavy high and low, from coast to coast, and beyond. Issues of faith, mercy and redemption play out within a contemporary tangle of belief systems and allegorical exploration. In the process Xavy and Grace and their friends examine remnants of feminist activism as well as recent issues like marriage equality for lesbians and gays, and the rise of the occupy movement. Throughout Where? Xavy provides insightful and amusing commentary on current issues, as well as themes of place, belonging, and home. As Xavy and Grace renew the friendship between them, they reflect, from the perspective of aging, upon the trajectories and rewards of their unconventional lives.
Hatching
A sick child's fate falls into the hands of a psychology intern. What he chooses to do secures her future. Manuel Flores, shattered by war, builds a shelter for Brigid, who has SCID (severe combined immunodeficiency ). This solution protects her, provides sanctuary for Manuel's restless spirit, and allows them both access to a natural setting. As Brigid grows, this nest starts feeling like a prison. She longs to get outside, beyond what she can see. Though it ultimately separates them, she pushes through cracks, then barriers, to open possibilities for Manuel. His mother, Elena, helps reunite them and, in turn, grows beyond her own boundaries of grief and aging. Although of different generat...
Change of Course
This novel of ideas describes change in the lives of a student, Jessie Adamson and her faculty, Dr. Sophie Green, as well as to their innovative graduate program. Moving through the program, Jessie overcomes obstacles and faces tragic life events to discover meaning and fulfillment. Sophie, facing retirement, reflects upon her long teaching career and mulls over the state of education in the United States. The program, designed to place students first in their own educational journeys and guided by committed, energetic but beleaguered faculty, is wrenched out of shape by self-serving administrators. While competing forces merge into a perfect storm of faculty conflict with administration, th...
Revolutionary Sparks
Margaret Blanchard has had experience as a newspaper reporter as well as a teacher of journalism. Her book is a broad-gauged discussion of freedom of expression in America - that is, the right of Americans to speak their minds and to have access to a variety of information necessary for informed self-government. Subjects discussed range from questions of national security to those of public morality, from loyalty during times of national stress to the right to preach on a public street corner. The book also includes controversies involving the press, the national government, the Supreme Court, and civil liberties and civil rights concerns. Many famous incidents and doctrines will be discussed, including Watergate and secrecy in government.
Who?
Who? explores the identities of two narrators, the identities of the missing persons they focus upon, and the identities of a particular community of women at a particular time in history. It provides a fictional but authentic glimpse into an urban women's liberation community of the 1970's and 80's, thus offering insight into the larger Who of this tale. This glimpse occurs within more intimate, less public settings of this movement and through the skeptical magnifying glass of one would-be detective's point of view and the reflective lens of a later chronicler. This novel raises the question, Who? in relation to the women's movement of the 1970's, not just about each participant as individuals but also about the identity they shared. "I really liked Who?! It works as a whole, with wonderful humor, political and psychological insight, mystery, intrigue, and depth. Blanchard captures a lot on many levels and she does it with great wit." --Bernice Mennis, writer and professor "I really enjoyed this novel. The mystery is compelling. Xavy is enchanting. I really felt for her. It kept me reading late at night." --Janet Calico, author of Gifts
