The energy to appear strong and the socially imposed obligation to rise above it all can be exhausting.
March 1, 2017
Valerie Brown
By Caryl Ann Casbon. Wyatt-MacKenzie, 2015. 112 pages. $17.99/paperback; $7.99/eBook. There is a deep part of every human being that…
September 1, 2016
Reviewed by Valerie Brown
By Ethan Nichtern. North Point Press, 2015. 288 pages. $25/hardcover; $16/paperback; $11.99/eBook. Ethan Nichtern comes from deeply planted Buddhist roots.…
March 1, 2016
Reviewed by Valerie Brown
By Douglas Gwyn. Plain Press, 2014. 512 pages. $20/paperback; $15/eBook. [button link=”https://www.amazon.com/Personality-Place-Life-Times-Pendle/dp/1500549363″]Buy on FJ Amazon Store[/button] Querencia (from the Spanish verb “querer”) is a metaphysical…
November 1, 2015
Reviewed by Valerie Brown
As I look off into the horizon of a youthful 50 that is drawing near, my mind fast-forwards into the…
January 1, 2006
Valerie Brown
As Quakers, we are called to see that of God in each person. And what if the person is the…
February 1, 2004
Valerie Brown