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    Gibbons, Gornick, Hardy, Bauby and Living Your Great Story
    Lelia
    • May 21
    • 7 min

    Gibbons, Gornick, Hardy, Bauby and Living Your Great Story

    Great Story Coaching* outlines the 3 ways we tend to narrate our lives to ourselves. The victim story (similar to Parul Sehgal’s “trauma...
    Edmund White, Memoir & Astro Reading
    Lelia
    • Apr 30
    • 7 min

    Edmund White, Memoir & Astro Reading

    About halfway through reading My Lives by Edmund White, I expected to give it a two-star rating. White spends so much time narrating his...
    Megan Marshall and the Art of Biography
    Lelia
    • Apr 2
    • 4 min

    Megan Marshall and the Art of Biography

    As a biographer Megan Marshall plays very close to the vest. She doles out her subject in single words or phrases, holds stories out of...
    Uranian Freedom & Vita Sackville-West
    Lelia
    • Mar 14
    • 4 min

    Uranian Freedom & Vita Sackville-West

    Early in Vita Sackville-West's All Passion Spent, the elderly protagonist Lady Slane says, “Besides, I have considered the eyes of the...
    Desire in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
    Lelia
    • Mar 12
    • 4 min

    Desire in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

    In Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde uses the erotic, or what Mary Karr might call the carnal, to deeply embed herself in her...
    Saturn and Your Great Work
    Lelia
    • Mar 9
    • 2 min

    Saturn and Your Great Work

    Accomplishment is one of the ways we measure our lives, but in terms of what gives meaning to our lives, accomplishments are often merely...
    An Imaginary Astrology Reading for Joyce Carol Oates: Part I
    Lelia
    • Feb 18
    • 6 min

    An Imaginary Astrology Reading for Joyce Carol Oates: Part I

    Imagine that Joyce Carol Oates*—who does not seem the type to sit with an astrologer, but let’s pretend—came to see me for a New Year’s...
    Jane Austen, Joan Didion & Self-respect
    Lelia
    • Jan 11
    • 10 min

    Jane Austen, Joan Didion & Self-respect

    Don’t you think Persuasion the best Jane Austen novel ever? It’s by far my favorite. That’s kind of a joke because most characters in...
    Endeavoring in 2022
    Lelia
    • Jan 2
    • 2 min

    Endeavoring in 2022

    I’ve never been big on making New Year’s Resolutions. In fact, the idea used to annoy me deeply back when I worked out at a gym and...
    Astrology Lessons from Ursula K. Le Guin*
    Lelia
    • Dec 26, 2021
    • 3 min

    Astrology Lessons from Ursula K. Le Guin*

    In Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer writes about Indigenous Americans’ Original Instructions. “These are not ‘instructions’ like...
    Eudora Welty + Aries + Guilt
    Lelia
    • Dec 20, 2021
    • 3 min

    Eudora Welty + Aries + Guilt

    I’m entranced by Eudora Welty right now. Reading her short story "Livvie," I’m awed by how much Welty does in just ten pages. In One...
    Memoir, Elderhood & Saturn
    Lelia
    • Dec 16, 2021
    • 5 min

    Memoir, Elderhood & Saturn

    Having read Angela’s Ashes and The Liar’s Club in quick succession, I was beginning to think that the only enjoyable memoirs overflow...
    Memoir and the Moon
    Lelia
    • Dec 8, 2021
    • 3 min

    Memoir and the Moon

    I used to pay a lot of attention to the first lines in books. I had a notebook where I wrote them down and classified them according to...
    Mary Karr, Memoir and the South Node
    Lelia
    • Dec 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    Mary Karr, Memoir and the South Node

    Ooph.I was relishing Mary Karr’s delicious language, but didn’t realize that this line I so admired - “Maybe it's wrong to blame the...
    Falling in Love with Penelope Fitzgerald
    Lelia
    • Dec 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Falling in Love with Penelope Fitzgerald

    Penelope Fitzgerald always wanted her children to be well-educated, to study foreign languages, to be employable. In her biography of...
    I Finally Read Eat, Pray, Love
    Lelia
    • Sep 29, 2021
    • 5 min

    I Finally Read Eat, Pray, Love

    And the most disappointing thing about the book is the way Liz Gilbert seems to suggest that in finding Felipe she’s completed her...
    Soul Vows, Astrology and Bette Midler
    Lelia
    • Sep 22, 2021
    • 2 min

    Soul Vows, Astrology and Bette Midler

    Soul Vows is my favorite of Janet Conner’s books. I have gone through it twice and have twice crafted my own set of vows. I think that’s...
    Astrology, the 12th House and Brené Brown
    Lelia
    • Sep 16, 2021
    • 4 min

    Astrology, the 12th House and Brené Brown

    Brené Brown’s natal chart (available at Astro Databank) provides a deeper understanding of the 12th house - that hidden house where...
    Feeling Adrift in an Empty Nest
    Lelia
    • Sep 15, 2021
    • 2 min

    Feeling Adrift in an Empty Nest

    My nest is empty and I’m grasping like a drowning person at anything that will tether me to a sense of stability and meaningful purpose....
    Arbitray Stupid Goal and Attracting Perfect Customers
    Lelia
    • Sep 14, 2021
    • 3 min

    Arbitray Stupid Goal and Attracting Perfect Customers

    Artbitrary Stupid Goal is excellent. I bought it having seen that it's one of Austin Kleon's book club picks and I devoured it, both...
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