![]() ![]() I now mostly edit audio pieces and write, and my work has been featured in places like The New York Times and Vox. Once, I made an app that tried to make audio easier to share. I co-produced a video series for TAL that won an Emmy. ![]() Sometimes I still produce and edit audio things. That book, What My Bones Know, is available for purchase here, or at your local independent bookstore.Ībout my career: I used to work as a radio producer for This American Life and Snap Judgment, and I’ve freelanced for podcasts like Invisibilia, The Cut, Nancy, Reply All and 99% Invisible. I told myself that when I finally healed, I would write the book I so wanted to read when I was first diagnosed - a stigma-busting, kind, first-person account with real science and solutions. But because C-PTSD is an under-researched, under-diagnosed condition, it was hard to find material on it, and many of the books I did read made me feel pathologized, stigmatized and alone. ![]() ![]() After I got diagnosed, I found it impossible to maintain the veneer of perfection I was trying so desperately to uphold, and instead dedicated my life to healing from C-PTSD. In 2018, I was diagnosed with complex PTSD.Īt the time, I looked good on paper - a successful journalist in a happy relationship - but I had been having panic attacks every morning in my office for months. ![]()
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![]() Karma Lekshe Tsomo offers classes in Buddhist Thought and Culture, World Religions, Comparative Religious Ethics, Religious and Political Identities in the Global Community and Negotiating Religious Diversity in India. ![]() ![]() T somo has advocated for the welfare of Buddhist nuns since the 1970s, " We want to give space for Buddhist women in different countries and cultures to establish their own goals." Through respecting tradition and also pushing on new interpretations she has made inspiring headway for the rights of Buddhist nuns within the faith. Tsomo is a professor of theology and religious studies at the University of San Diego and has been a beacon of hope for women within the Buddhist tradition. Venerable Karma Lekshe Tsomo shares about her work in an interview with Center Advisory Council Member Steve Wilhelm. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the breakthrough first volume in the Empress of Bright Moon duology, Weina Dai Randel paints a vibrant portrait of ancient China - where love, ambition, and loyalty can spell life or death - and the woman who came to rule it all. But just as she is in a position to seduce the most powerful man in China, divided loyalties split the palace in two, culminating in a perilous battle that Mei can only hope to survive. Mei's intelligence and curiosity, the same traits that make her an outcast among the other concubines, impress the emperor. But young Mei knows nothing of these womanly arts, yet she will give the emperor a gift he can never forget. ![]() Some present him with fantastic gifts, such as jade pendants and scrolls of calligraphy, while others rely on their knowledge of seduction to draw his interest. Many paint their faces white and style their hair attractively, hoping to lure in the One Above All with their beauty. There is no easy path for a woman aspiring to power.Ī concubine at the palace learns quickly that there are many ways to capture the emperor's attention. ![]() RITA Award winner, Mainstream Fiction with a Central Romance, 2017. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m absolutely chomping at the bit for book three NOW. This one’s going to kick your feels right in the feels, guys, so hold on as we go into rocky territory in “Star Cursed”. It made me love this book, this world, these characters all the more. Review: Oh my god, those last two pages, you guys – DEFINITELY makes this book a candidate for my best of 2013 for that alone, but this book takes many risks, and I love that Spotswood wasn’t afraid to go into some of the darker places that other sequels would have avoided. ☆: 4.5/5 stars – an awesome continuation to the first book! In the highly anticipated sequel to Born Wicked, the Cahill Witch Chronicles continue Cate, Maura and Tess’s quest to find love, protect family, and explore their magic against all odds in an alternate history of New England. But when Maura and Tess join the Sisterhood, Maura makes it clear that she’ll do whatever it takes to lead the witches to victory. And after Cate’s friend Sachi is arrested for using magic, a war-thirsty Sister offers to help her find answers-if Cate is willing to endanger everyone she loves.Ĭate doesn’t want to be a weapon, and she doesn’t want to involve her friends and Finn in the Sisterhood’s schemes. Summary: With the Brotherhood persecuting witches like never before, a divided Sisterhood desperately needs Cate to come into her Prophesied powers. Publication Date: J(Penguin – North America) Genre: YA, historical, alternate universe/parallel timelines, paranormal Title: “Star Cursed (Cahill Witch Chronicles #2)” ![]() ![]() In these Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time” ( The New York Times), gives us a poignant and universal story about friendship and belonging, a meditation on love and jealousy, freedom and commitment-at once a masterfully plotted page-turner and an intense, generous-hearted family saga. Yet the two young women share a complex and evolving bond that is central to their emotional lives and a source of strength in the face of life’s challenges. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila, and the pressure to excel is at times too much for Elena. ![]() In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made her entrée into the family business Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighborhood that she so often finds stifling. The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name continues the epic New York Times–bestselling literary quartet that has inspired an HBO series, and returns us to the world of Lila and Elena, who grew up together in post-WWII Naples, Italy. ![]() A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: “Everyone should read anything with Ferrante’s name on it” ( The Boston Globe). ![]() ![]() In 2010, Bleu played Usnavi in the Broadway company of In the Heights. (2019), and Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story (2022). He has appeared in the films The Little Engine That Could (2011), Scary or Die (2012), Nurse 3D (2013), Sugar (2013), The Monkey's Paw (2013), Walk. He returned to television, starring in the short-lived Ashton Kutcher–produced CW series, The Beautiful Life: TBL (2009), and the movie Free Style (2009). His second album, Speed of Light, was released in 2009. Billboard 200 album chart, selling 18,000 copies in its first week. The album debuted and peaked at number thirty-six on the U.S. īleu has also pursued a music career and his debut album Another Side was released in 2007, which included the hit " Push It to the Limit". He competed in the 17th season of Dancing with the Stars. During this time, he also starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Jump In! (2007), as well as the film To Write Love on Her Arms (2015). ![]() ![]() Songs from the films also charted worldwide, with the song " I Don't Dance" peaking inside the Top 70 of the Billboard Hot 100. He began acting professionally in the early 2000s and rose to prominence in the late 2000s for his leading role as Chad Danforth in the High School Musical trilogy (2006–2008). He has since appeared in the Discovery Kids drama series Flight 29 Down (2005–2007). He made his acting debut in the 2004 adventure comedy film Catch That Kid. Corbin Bleu Reivers ( / b l uː/ born February 21, 1989), known professionally as Corbin Bleu, is an American actor and singer. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book begins: "Are you afraid of the dark? Whether your answer is yes or no, think of all the things that happen in the dark. Gorgeous language by author Mildred Pitts Walter (African-American author, winner of Coretta Scott King award for justin and the best biscuits in the world) is matched by the rich and mysterious colors of the acrylic painting-illustrations by Marcia Jameson (in her first children's picture book). ![]() ![]() ![]() The study of British, Scandinavian and European soaps, based on an `ethnographic' approach to the social networks in the world of the soaps, shows that these countries have developed three distinctive subtypes of the genre: the community soap, the dynastic soap and the dyadic soap. These results are discussed in relation to past research but the authors also argue that, as the findings suggest some participants gained a therapeutic effect from watching EastEnders, there is a fruitful and little-explored link between such comfort viewing and research on psychotherapy.Īnalysis of the most popular locally made soap operas in each of five European countries reveals that the soap opera is not simply an imported American genre. These themes were made up of seven categories, each of which helped explain why participants watched EastEnders: reduced troubles, gender, relaxation, social activity, community, realism and Britishness. Two major themes constituting social objects were identified - female desire and community. Material was generated via an open-ended email questionnaire and analyzed qualitatively using grounded theory. The second aim was to identify the kinds of social object dominating their accounts as a way of revealing the forms of cultural debate catalyzed by the show. ![]() ![]() The first aim was to understand why people watch this program. This article describes a study investigating narratives obtained from 45 participants about their watching of the television program, EastEnders. ![]() ![]() ![]() With its spectacular setting and deep emotional drama, Aphrodite’s Tears will appeal both to fans of her backlist, as well as lovers of atmospheric travel writing including Santa Montefiore, Penny Vincenzie, Victoria Hislop and Lucinda Riley.Įgyptian by birth Hannah is fluent in French, English and Arabic and has lived all over the world, she currently lives between her writing retreat in the South of France and her rambling family home in Ireland. Echoes of Love won Romance Novel of the Year at the IPB Awards in 2012 and Burning Embers was Amazon’s book of the month in 2011, while Hannah’s novels have been translated into 13 languages. Here is a wee taste of what it is all about:įollowing her huge success as one of the UK’s leading romance authors with total sales of over 130k, Aphrodite’s Tears follows the award winning success of Hannah Fielding’s previous novels Burning Embers, Echoes of Love, Masquerade, Legacy and Indiscretion. It is an emotional and colourful extravaganza of mythology, history, culture and romance. ![]() On the 15th of January I will be f eaturing a fantastic Q&A with the author Hannah Fielding, and of course my review. The Blog-Tour takes place from the 15th Jan to 26th Jan 2018. ![]() Aphrodite’s Tears will be published on the 25th of January 2018 by London Wall Publishing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite his morals, he knows at the core he isn't so unlike his mafiosi father and brothers. But can she truly turn her back on her family? All his life, Lorenzo's family assumed he would become a priest, but he has different ideas-marrying Sabina and pursuing a career in the law. Maybe Lorenzo, the fianc� who barely paid her any attention in the last two years, has the right idea by planning to escape their world. Ambushes, bribes, murder, prostitution-all her life, her father sheltered her from his crimes, but now she can no longer turn away from the truth. Sabina Mancari never questioned her life as the daughter of Chicago's leading mob boss until bullets tear apart her world and the man she thought she loved turns out to be an undercover Prohibition agent. ![]() |