Showing posts with label loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label loss. Show all posts

Saturday, April 4, 2026

BIBLIOTHERAPY AND LOSS by Jeff Tanner, Guest Blogger


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I had another blog post ready to go, but recent events have pushed that aside.]

When I was young, I was the kid who checked out a stack of books from the library as big as I could carry. I read everything – from Encyclopedia Brown to classics like Twain and Dickens, then Agatha Christie to That Was Then, This is Now, Watership Down, and short stories like “Success” and “The Lottery.” I learned so much from books.

But not everything.

WRITING ON A SHOESTRING: DAVID MEETS GOLIATH by Michael Rigg

You’ve, no doubt, read about it. Or seen it depicted on film: the Battle of Thermopylae. Xerxes, King of Persia, versus Leonidas, King of Sp...