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| Author: Cindy La Ferle
Publisher: Hearth Stone Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 777163
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 294
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0923568638
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.8743
EAN: 9780923568634
ASIN: 0923568638
Publication Date: January 1, 2005
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Condition: Practically brand new! Some shelfwear/rubbing on cover. Has "copy" stamp on lower book edge.
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Heartwarming and Relaxing September 18, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
La Ferle's essays are not only engaging, but heartwarming and spirit lifting. Writing Home is complied of short essays, averaging two to four pages in length, which make it the perfect book to read when time is sparse, and you need to feel refreshed, relaxed, and stress-free.
Best stories are closest to home June 24, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
We share our stories because we have faith - faith that the universe has meaning, and that our little lives are not irrelevant. --Madeleine L'Engle
A collection of more than 90 essays, Writing Home represents more than 10 years of Royal Oak resident Cindy La Ferle's career - and much of what she's learned about life.
An unexpected columnist, La Ferle seems right at home in a world defined by a few hundred words, one that depends almost entirely on voice and insight to draw and keep a reader's attention. Her writing flows with a gentle and conversational tone, one that shares her life lessons with great respect for her readers.
Subject headings from Child Care and Kitchen Duty, to Work Ethics and Keeping Up Appearances reflect what is most ordinary about life outside the big city; La Ferle writes with clarity about making friends with a neighborhood squirrel and opening her house and yard to son Nate's brood of friends over his 13-year school career.
Writing Home coaxes the extraordinary from these elements of an ordinary life with subtle humor and quiet insights. The book's form lends itself to an early morning at the breakfast table, a cup of coffee and a few minutes to remember that the best lessons in life are the simplest and the best stories are those closest to home.
This is a book you can feel good about buying not only for yourself; proceeds benefit organizations in Oakland County that help the homeless.
Inspiring memoir...and so much more April 26, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Cindy La Ferle's essays inspire us to appreciate life's everyday victories and handle its defeats with grace and humor. She beautifully articulates the challenges of juggling career and family in today's society.
Enthralling, rueful, insightful and compassionate April 12, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Sensitive and intelligent, LaFerle's collection of essays is a "delicious" journey through life. In candidly revealing her thoughts, she invites us to deepen our own. A literary treat.
A great way to end the day April 12, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A collection of short stories and articles that were published as columns in papers and magazines, but when taken together are like reading her diary. Cindy finds beauty and significance in the ordinary family events that we all have in common and her take is always positive. A few pages of Writing Home is a great way to end the day.
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