In Conversation with Julie Coons – The Author of This Does Not Leave This House

This Does Not Leave this House by Julie Coons is very close to my heart for a number of reasons. Although I cannot mention them all here, I would like to mention my top three reasons – This memoir puts forth many disturbing, yet real, aspects of the author’s life, but it never became a…

Burying Leo by Helga Gruendler-Schierloh #BookReview

Can you move forward without making peace with your past? What makes a marriage successful? Is infidelity ever acceptable? What defines love? Burying Leo by Helga Gruendler-Schierloh would make these questions pop into your head time and again. Ingrid Bassen has been married to Joe Bassen for about fourteen years now but she is not sure…

A Tribute to Rape Victims

This morning I came across news of a girl who was raped by 25 men of a village. The reason given for this heinous crime is particularly disturbing. According to the victim they wanted to change her uncle’s religion. Her uncle denied so they raped this girl in order to teach him a lesson. Do…