Tag Archives: childhood
Virtual Book Tour tomorrow
Please join us here at Her Mentor Center for a Virtual Book Tour on Thursday, March 14th, for our talk with award-winning writer, performer and playwright, Sarah Pleydell. She will be answering questions about her debut novel, Cologne. Set in 1960 and based on memories of Sarah’s childhood in London, this stunning novel has been twenty years in the making. She presents a portrait of a family and their German au pair on the cusp of great social change. Childhood and history collide, blurring the distinctions between victim and victor, ruin and … Continue reading
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Tagged au pair, author, childhood, Cologne, London, March 14, Sarah Pleydell, Thursday, Virtual Book Tour
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Playing Hooky
I’m beginning to feel a little giddy now that the change to Daylight Savings Time is coming this weekend. Every year when we turn the clocks back one hour, I too turn back in time – but in years. I feel like the kid I once was – excited about getting another hour of sunshine each day. Growing up, the change to daylight savings time came later in the year, closer to the end of school. So I always connected the clock change to my carefree days of summer in … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood, clock, Daylight Savings Time, friends, kids, play, summer, sunshine
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