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Lorna Michaels

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Omfatter også følgende navne: Thelma Alexander, Thelma Zirkelbach

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(eng) Thelma Zirkelbach also wrote as Lorna Michaels and Thelma Alexander.

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Værker af Lorna Michaels

The Reluctant Bodyguard (1995) 13 eksemplarer
Truth About Elyssa (2001) 13 eksemplarer
Stranger in Her Arms (2005) 9 eksemplarer
The Reluctant Hunk (1994) 9 eksemplarer
A Candle for Nick (2006) 9 eksemplarer
The Trouble With Tonya (1997) 8 eksemplarer
That Great Chili Caper (1996) 8 eksemplarer
A Matter of Privilege (1992) 6 eksemplarer
Season of Light (1992) 5 eksemplarer
A Man of Few Words (1993) 3 eksemplarer
True Texas Love (To Love Again) (1994) 2 eksemplarer
Blessing in Disguise (1990) 1 eksemplar
Hurikán (1996) 1 eksemplar

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Juridisk navn
Zirkelbach, Thelma
Andre navne
Michaels, Lorna
Zirkelbach, Thelma
Alexander, Thelma
Fødselsdato
1935
Køn
female
Nationalitet
USA
Fødested
Austin, Texas, USA
Bopæl
Austin, Texas, USA
Houston, Texas, USA
Kort biografi
Thelma Zirkelbach was born and raised in Austin, Texas, USA. At age four, she composed a poem that went, "Happy as a chicken, Happy as a pig, Happy as a rabbit that danced a little jig" and announced that someday she would be a writer. Okay, she had a ways to go, but her goal was clear. It would, however, take several decades to realize that goal. As a child she loved pretending. She and her friends dressed up in her mother's old clothes and imagined they were movie stars or shipwrecked on a desert island. Or she created elaborate stories about a set of paper dolls that lived in, of all places, an orphanage. Her other favorite thing to do was read. She was always being accused of having her nose in a book. She still does.

Pretending gave way to more realistic activities in high school and college—football games, parties, school activities. When she had to declare a college major, she impulsively chose speech pathology because she had recently read an article about it in Seventeen magazine. It's a choice she never regretted. Near the end of her junior year, her college career was interrupted when her dress blew into a gas stove and she was severely burned. She spent three months in a burn ward and four more in bed at home. She had to learn to walk all over again, but she also learned that she had the fortitude to overcome pain and the determination to return to her normal life. Within a year she was back in school.

After graduation she moved to Houston where she worked as a speech pathologist in the public schools for a year and then quit to get married, have babies, drive carpools, and bake cookies. She had become June Cleaver. Divorce brought that phase of her life to a close. She returned to college for a masters degree, met her present husband, and the two of them combined their families. She'd moved from Leave it to Beaver to The Brady Bunch.

She was busy—working as a speech pathologist, going back to school again for a doctorate, and raising a rambunctious family of three kids. Then one day she picked up a Silhouette Romance and got hooked. Soon, reading wasn't enough; she was determined to write a book of her own. She joined Romance Writers of America, started attending conferences and entering contests. Finally on day she got "the call." She'd sold her first book. She combined her two children's names—Lori and Michael—to come up with her pen name Lorna Michaels, and saw her first book published in 1991. She also wrote as Thelma Zirkelbach and Thelma Alexander. She has continued her private speech pathology practice and written 10 more books. How does she find the time? Except for an occasional special program, she doesn't watch television. But the sacrifice has been worth it. She's fulfilled her lifelong dream of being a writer. Today, she has 3 grown children, 2 grandchildren, and 2 demanding cats.
Oplysning om flertydighed
Thelma Zirkelbach also wrote as Lorna Michaels and Thelma Alexander.

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On Our Own: Widowhood for Smarties consists of almost one hundred stories, poems, and essays from sixty-seven different widows and widowers who are working through the grief of the loss of their life partner. It is a journey through the grieving process someone in that situation will understand, while not being too far removed from the appreciation of others not yet there.

Some entries will put a tear in your eye, others a smile on your face, and a few may cause you to chuckle.

I like what it says on the back cover, so will include it here:

Widowhood…a status with some deference but a role few seek. A new beginning usually greeted with dread rather than anticipation. The writers of this collection express the range of emotions at the loss of a spouse but the overwhelming message is affirmation of the strength they find to create new lives after deep loss. Widows and widowers will read these stories and poems with knowing nods, sighs and smiles. Other readers will find insight into a common human condition and perhaps courage to face their own unsought new beginnings. As the subtitle suggests, this is widowhood for smarties, for those who acknowledge the pain of loss but who are learning to live in spite of it, even to build on it.

It’s obvious there was much thought put into the creation of this book. Along the bottom of every page there is a continuous appropriate offering of quotes, adding to and complimenting the main content.

Examples:

“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn’t know a thing about life.” – Sue Monk Kidd
“I don’t mind dying, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – Woody Allen
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – from a headstone in Ireland
“Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir

This anthology gives a well-rounded taste of the experience of widowhood, the deep profound loss, the pain and grief, but it also is encouraging and hopeful. On Our Own: Widowhood for Smarties is not only for the grieving of the loss of a relationship, it is a glimpse into the experience and definitely a good read for anyone.
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Værker
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Medlemmer
95
Popularitet
#197,646
Vurdering
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Anmeldelser
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ISBN
25
Sprog
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