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Publisher:
She Writes Press
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
"Writer Susan Tweit and her economist-turned-sculptor husband Richard Cabe had just settled into their version of a 'good life' when Richard saw thousands of birds one day--harbingers of the brain cancer that would kill him two years later. This compelling and intimate memoir chronicles their journey into the end of his life, framed by their final trip together, a 4,000-mile-long delayed honeymoon road trip"--Publisher.
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Publisher:
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Description:
"'You’ve got two years, or perhaps five,' said the doctor, leaning over her metal desk. 'I’m sorry.' She took off her glasses and rubbed her eyes, then replaced the lenses carefully before explaining that she had sent my test results to specialists. They concurred with her diagnosis: the way the disease was progressing, they thought, my life would not last long. It was February of 1980. I was twenty-three years old, attending graduate school...
5. City foxes
Author:
Publisher:
Denver Museum of Natural History
Pub. Date:
[1997]
Language:
English
Description:
Records the lives of two adult foxes and their litter of newborn kits which have made their home in a city graveyard.
Author:
Publisher:
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
Description:
Without a map, navigate by the stars. Susan Tweit began learning this lesson as a young woman diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that was predicted to take her life in two to five years. Offered no clear direction for getting well through conventional medicine, Tweit turned to the natural world that was both her solace and her field of study as a plant ecologist. Drawing intuitive connections between the natural processes and cycles she observed...
Publisher:
Seven Oaks Pub
Pub. Date:
[2011]
Language:
English
Description:
"Editor W.C. Jameson has long been interested in why writers do what they do. Why do they write? What obstacles do they encounter, and how do they overcome inevitable bumps in the road? He also wondered how living in Colorado specifically influences the writing experience. So he asked authors, with no rules or boundaries, to share whatever they wanted about their art and lives. These eclectic essays are a peek inside the minds of Colorado authors...