Magical Memoir Moments

Home for the Holidays Part III: What Does Home Mean to YOU?

By Shirley Showalter | December 24, 2010

I have been thinking a lot about houses and the idea of home for the last month. Moving from Michigan to Virginia at age 62 has stimulated introspection. I am no longer at home in Goshen, IN, the place where I spent most of my adult life, or Kalamazoo, MI, the place that nurtured us…

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Home for the Holidays: A New Mini-Memoir Blog Series

By Shirley Showalter | November 30, 2010

After I left the Fetzer Institute this summer, both Stuart and I began to feel an eastward tug. Our life together has followed this path: VA, TX, IN, Haiti, IN,VA, IN, Ivory Coast, IN, NC, IN, MI, VA. Love has taken us to a circle of new places, and now love calls us home. Forty-four years…

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You Can Go Home Again–A Mini-Memoir

By Shirley Showalter | April 13, 2009

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, likes to call itself the Garden Spot of the World.  If you travel to Lancaster in the springtime, you understand.  The greens penetrate deeper than the human eye can see, and the earth, well, it’s as soft and receptive as any coquette and more fertile than a hutch full of rabbits. I…

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