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marthaengber
Feb 171 min read
Fiction Can Lead to Increased Empathy
1978 was my freshman year at Lyons Township High School in La Grange, IL. I’ll admit I was pretty straight-laced, so I would have...
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marthaengber
Dec 23, 20241 min read
Mary Donahue Means Winter
Buy NOW! Winter is most definitely the time to think about Mary Donahue, who, at the age of 15, is heading into the blizzard winter of...
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marthaengber
Nov 11, 20241 min read
Writing to Music: WINTER LIGHT playlist
Buy 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...
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marthaengber
Aug 19, 20241 min read
WINTER LIGHT: Almost 3 and Still Shining
Buy 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...
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marthaengber
Aug 5, 20241 min read
Mary Donahue's Winter Olympics
Buy NOW! Mary Donahue of WINTER LIGHT was 14 during the 1976 Winter Olympics in Montreal. Already too cool for school and generally...
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marthaengber
Jul 1, 20241 min read
Chicago Summer 1978
Buy 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...
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marthaengber
May 7, 20242 min read
Book 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...
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