With a peculiar start of recognition, I first came across this unusual and atmospheric drawing in the 1980’s. In this haunting image of a man and woman walking in the deep woods and meeting an apparition of their higher and spiritual selves, I met myself as well. For me, the… Read More »How they met Themselves by Loretta Proctor
It’s difficult for me to identify with Lara Croft, Elektra, Yu Shu-lien, or the myriad other superwomen gracing many books and movies today. They are enticing but unrealistic, unattainable. They are almost as bad, in their way, as the Catholic Mary. What mortal woman-of-faith can live up to such spotless… Read More »Flawed Heroine Aridela by Rebecca Lochlann
I have always read historical fiction. When I was a child I associated fiction with times and places far removed from my current suburban routine, from the Little House books to the Great Brain series. As I grew up my fiction continued to be historical. I graduated to the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen.… Read More »Fact and Fiction by Annmarie Banks
Children have such wonderful blank canvases for minds. And the books they read at this period become impressed as if on soft clay that has not yet baked and hardened into an unchangeable shape by adult experiences and disappointments. The books that impressed me as a child… Read More »Treading Life’s Broad Highway by Loretta Proctor
Looking over a local library’s event schedule yesterday, I came across the name of an author I hadn’t thought about for years—make that decades. He must be ancient, and if he’s still out there promoting, he’s earned an audience. I might just go and thank him for the memories. As a teenager,… Read More »History for Teenagers-A Dangerous Proposition by Peg Herring