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Music🌉 Longevity Rocks!
or What We Know Now, That We Didn't Know Then by Denize Springer The recounting of a 1978 Rolling Stones concert reveals how amazing life was back then and still is, but reminds us that it can be “as brutal as it is wondrous.” The Music in My Soul
by Elsa Fernandez A rousing personal essay describing a woman’s introduction to and subsequently becoming hooked on jazz. Musical Power
by Juanita Callejas This personal essay reveals how a family “permeated” with music copes with the deafness of some of its members. Naptime
by Barbara Applegate A touching memoir about how hearing her mother play classical music in childhood caused the author to experience sadness on hearing that music all her life. Bud In Dreamland
by Don Plansky A comprehensive, lively and sympathetic investigation of jazz great Bud Powell: genius, mental patient, flawed human being. Vertical Divider
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More NonfictionOne Good Egg
by Kathy Bruin A rousing account of a 40-year-old’s tussle with infertility doctors and insensitive family members as she attempts to become pregnant. Finding My Father
by Matt Ginsburg The intriguing saga of a middle-aged man’s search for his birth father, not to find a “role model or mentor,” but his own identity. Lifeline
by Angie Minkin The warm recounting of a conventional family coping with a death in an unconventional way. 🌉The $5 Bill
by Barbara Applegate A woman finds it unexpectedly difficult to give money away in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. Not Climbing Every Mountain
by Cathy Fiorello This poignant essay presents a glimpse of what life is like as a mother, wife and would-be world traveler while afflicted with a fear of heights. |
🌉 BAY AREA STEW SELECTION - A TASTE OF LIFE IN THE BAY AREA
Click or tap for an index of Bay Area Stew selections and California Trees and Wild Birds photography
Click or tap for an index of Bay Area Stew selections and California Trees and Wild Birds photography
Vistas & Byways Review is the semiannual journal of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by members of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at San Francisco State University.
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