– It’s Okay A title will often speak to me and particularly titles recommended by a friend and nothing will speak to this preacher’s heart…
Author: Hannah Bergstrom de Leon
Book Review: Human Acts
– Completes Me! There are books in the world that you read because you know it is a beautiful book even as it tells the…
What Do We Really Know?: Reflections on the Antiracist Book Festival
“I circled right…back to the questions that science does not ask, not because they aren’t important, but because science as a way of knowing is…
Book Review: Girl On Fire
– Worth It! I love graphic novels and I love superhero stories about young girls, so when Alicia Keys’ book, “Girl On Fire” came out…
Book Review: Unbossed
– It’s Okay You can barely go a day without hearing someone say, if only the news reported the good things that are happening in…
Book Review: Spoiler Alert
– It’s Okay When the world is getting you down and you just need a break in the gray skies of spring in Minnesota, a…
Book Review: Killers of the Flower Moon
– Worth It! It’s a great day when you are reading a nonfiction book and you have to remind yourself that yes, this actually happened.…
Book Review: Children of the Land
– Worth It! Entering into someone’s lived experience through what feels like journal entries feels a bit invasive, but it certainly provides a deep, vivid…
Honoring Poetry: The Language of the Soul
My love affair with poetry began young. So young in fact I don’t actually remember which teacher it was who first read Shel Silverstein’s iconic…
Review: Come As You Are
– Completes Me! It may be cheeky but “Completes Me!” is entirely appropriate for both what this book is about and my experience reading it.…