Through My World and My Mind
Interesting how science validates what our bodies and inner selves seem to know instinctively. Coffee and tea, staples in most diets, provide all sorts of benefits instead of being the health culprits we once thought them to be. Exercise, movement is good and necessary, but we don’t have to become triathletes in order to reap the benefits.
Walking daily is my choice of movement, one I’ve committed myself to as an adult. But, without knowing why walking so pulled me, it was a source of entertainment when I was a child. It’s almost as if my body and mind enticed me into something good for me.
Books captivated me when I discovered them as a preschooler. I was so enthralled by them that later every six weeks when I was in the fifth and sixth grades, the teacher comments on my report cards always said, “Jennifer reads too many library books.”
How could that be possible?
Return to the Land of My Forefathers is the story of Bill Barton, an intelligent, engaging, young journalist from the South, whose short life was determined by the complexities of his own humanity confronting this country’s most controversial and divisive issues of the 20th century: civil rights and the Vietnam War.
Through my personal essays, In the Gloaming tells the story of my father and his life that was stolen by Alzheimer’s and its effect on our family. Perhaps by reading these essays, other people facing similar circumstances will learn something useful. But my real goal for readers is that by learning they are not alone, they will find a bit of light through the darkness.
Return to the Land of My Forefathers is the story of Bill Barton, an intelligent, engaging, young journalist from the South, whose short life was determined by the complexities of his own humanity confronting this country’s most controversial and divisive issues of the 20th century: civil rights and the Vietnam War.
Through my personal essays, In the Gloaming tells the story of my father and his life that was stolen by Alzheimer’s and its effect on our family. Perhaps by reading these essays, other people facing similar circumstances will learn something useful. But my real goal for readers is that by learning they are not alone, they will find a bit of light through the darkness.