marthaengber6 days ago1 min readWriting to Music: WINTER LIGHT playlistBuy NOW! Mary Donahue, the 15-year-old protagonist of my novel, WINTER LIGHT, which takes place in 1978-79 Chicago, listens to a lot of...
marthaengberAug 191 min readWINTER LIGHT: Almost 3 and Still ShiningBuy NOW! There are MILLIONS of books published every year, so when I do as I do occasionally and check my Amazon rating to see #54 for...
marthaengberAug 51 min readMary Donahue's Winter OlympicsBuy NOW! Mary Donahue of WINTER LIGHT was 14 during the 1976 Winter Olympics in Montreal. Already too cool for school and generally...
marthaengberJul 11 min readChicago Summer 1978Buy NOW! Now that it’s summer, I was thinking about my childhood summers in the 1970s back in Chicago. What the season meant: hot, humid...
marthaengberMay 72 min readBook Review: "Working on Me"by Nikki Patin Often how we come to experience other people’s lives is not by learning facts about them, but by listening to how they...