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The Home We Can and Cannot Leave

My review of Margot Singer’s wonderful essay collection, Secret Agent Man. What if our homes help prolong our lives? asks one of Margot Singer’s haunting essays in Secret Agent Man. Even after being away for years, she thinks of her childhood house in Cochituate, Massachusetts, as an anchor and feels comforted to find her parents still embedded… Continue reading The Home We Can and Cannot Leave

Christmas · family · story

The Tree Nobody Wanted

Boston author Tom McCann’s Christmas story, The Tree Nobody Wanted, is available in hardcover and now as an eBook. It’s a poignant (but non-schmaltzy) tale, great for kids and for their parents. If you’d like to sample it first, his new, engaging blog, Real People, is featuring it now.