Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.
Dani ShapiroMy desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.
Dani ShapiroI've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother died ten years ago. My son was very sick as an infant. Eventually, I have attempted to transform this pain into art, to make meaning out of it.
Dani ShapiroIt is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.
Dani Shapiro