I’m so excited to have Judy Fogarty here for this month’s (late–sorry!) Bookish People interview. If you remember, she wrote the book Breaking and Holding that I reviewed a few weeks ago and loved so much. It has a great mix of heavy and light–dysfunctional marriage, addiction, secrets, and abuse plus a sweet romance, friendship,…

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A few days ago, I fell asleep at the kitchen table while going over spelling words with Kate. Chin propped in hand, eyes closed, sank into sleep, and jerked awake. All while Kate carefully wrote out “germ” and drew a little googly-eyed creature next to it. (The assignment was to draw a picture of the…

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