Synopsis: Margaret Robison has lived an extraordinary life. Born in 1935, she grew up in Cairo, Georgia, the daughter of an emotionally distant mother. Margaret was a tomboy of sorts.…
Synopsis: Isolde “Izzy” Brilliant’s thirty-ninth birthday is rapidly approaching. A former hedge fund manager with an MBA, she was laid off, along with many colleagues, but provided a generous severance…
Synopsis: Cookie grew up in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she was the homecoming and prom queen, and voted most popular girl in her high school. But after graduation she fled to…
Author Hugh Aaron’s collection of short stories certainly lives up to its name: The included works were drafted over a sixty-six-year time span, the earliest dating back to when he…
Synopsis: Cascom Mountain in New Hampshire has always figured prominently in Mary Hall’s life. She spent summers there in the home that belonged to her parents, not far from the…
Synopsis: Katherine did not know Frederick very long before marrying him, and much of their courtship was conducted through letters exchanged while he was serving in the military during World…
Synopsis: Christine Lucas wakes up each morning confused. She believes that she is a young woman in her twenties. She looks around her bedroom and it does not seem familiar,…
Synopsis: Susannah Underhill has always been painfully shy and socially inept. She considers herself plain. She grew up in Detroit, the only child of a veterinary surgeon, in a household…
Synopsis: Cathryn (“Cate”) Mahon Cooper has had a series of very bad days. A few days ago, Cate’s husband of twenty-six years, Addison, took his own life. At his funeral,…
Synopsis: Helen Hansen is dying, but no one has told her that. Her treating physicians and husband, Elliott, have decided that it is better for Helen to continue to live…
Synopsis: Ruby Donaldson is fifty-five years old. A year ago, she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Her physician prescribed medication in an attempt to slow the disease’s progress but,…
Synopsis: Justine Jameson is approaching her eighteenth birthday. She had a brief relationship with Keith that ended after only four months. Pregnant and alone, she returned home to live with…
Synopsis: Art Breen was just a baby when, in 1951, his father abandoned him and his mother. She struggled to care for herself and her son, but Father Fergus came…
Synopsis: Alice has, over the course of a thirty-six year career, climbed to the top of the corporate ladder. But now she is sixty-two years old and her company is…
Synopsis: The first fifty-four years of Lee Kravitz’s life were unremarkable in the sense that he spent them doing what most Americans do: He completed his education and traveled a…
Synopsis: Frances Baldwin is seventy-four years old. She has known for quite a few months that she was nearing the end of her life. For many years, she enjoyed smoking,…
Synopsis: Gray Lachmann’s life feels to her that it matches her name. Gray, gloomy, without hope. Gray is convinced that she killed her father and since his death, she has…
Synopsis: Wesley Lloyd Springer died suddenly on a Thursday evening in the driveway of his home. His wife of forty-four years, Julia, discovered him slumped over the steering wheel of…
Synopsis: Amelia Wilkes is, in most respects, a typical seventeen-year-old high school senior, with big dreams of studying drama at New York University and eventually forging a career as a…
Author Mari L. McCarthy is very straight-forward and honest in her Introduction to 27 Days of Journaling to Health & Happiness: “I’ll tell you right now that if you’re not…