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Dr. Charles Edwards and Dementia Care in “Much Abides A Survival Guide for Aging Lives”

In today’s episode, we visit with Dr. Charles “Chuck” Edwards, author of “Much Abides: A Survival Guide for Aging Lives.”

When a hand tremor forced successful heart surgeon Chuck Edwards to re-evaluate his career, he concluded that he wasn’t ready to give up being a doctor. He loved helping patients, too much. But what could he do when he could no longer do what he had done at a high level for so many years. He could re-invent himself. That’s what.

The forces of change opened an interest for Chuck (almost an obsession) with aging that formed in his mind as he thought back to how he and his family struggled to preserve dignity first for their father, a World War II Veteran who was wounded on the D-Day invasion at Omaha Beach, who suffered dementia at the end of his life, and then his mother, who suffered from Alzheimers disease before she died. At age 65, he decided to go back to school at Johns Hopkins to study the disease before opening the Memory & Movement Charlotte that has grown to help more than 1200 patients and 3200 caregivers.

This book tells Chuck’s story and covers all aspects of aging, time left, what is under one's control, factors that protect and factors that undermine our goals. Examples of successful aging are presented. A major theme is personal narrative and how one's story, if valued , has the potential to change behavior and be the bedrock for aging with grace and purpose.

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Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland, and the short story collection, Growing Things and Other Stories.

He is currently a member of the board of directors of the Shirley Jackson Awards, and his essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year’s-best anthologies. He has a master’s degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his family.

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Every Valentine's Day, Colleen and I share on of our most requested essays: What Love Is.

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Michael Koryta (pronounced Ko-ree-ta) is the New York Times-bestselling author of 11 suspense novels. His work has been praised by Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Dean Koontz, James Patterson, Dennis Lehane, Daniel Woodrell, Ron Rash, and Scott Smith among many others, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. His books have won or been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Edgar® Award, Shamus Award, Barry Award, Quill Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the Golden Dagger. They've been selected as "best books of the year" by publications as diverse as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com, O the Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, People, Reader's Digest, iBooks, and Kirkus Reviews.

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In “The Gift Best Given” Edward Di Gangi Pieces Together Family Secrets of an Unknown Mother

In today’s episode, we visit with Edward Di Gangi, author of The Gift Best Given, a moving and extraordinary memoir about the three-year genealogical search for his origins that began in a New Jersey cemetery, and the life of an extraordinary woman—his birth mother.

Genevieve Knorowski left home at the age of seventeen in the midst of World War II to join an ice-skating troupe, and embarked on a five-year journey across the US as she rose to fame. And then life intervened and she had to make a decision on an Easter Sunday in New York City that will forever connect the story of a woman pursuing her dreams with the life of a man searching for answers.

Edward Di Gangi’s heart is in this story in more ways than one. His heart beat fast when he committed to the path to find answers to his past and when he made one discovery after another, his heart became more full for the love of a mother who had the courage and grace to give him life and lead him to relatives he never knew he had.

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Author Dori Ann Dupré Tells A Heartwarming Tale of Family Love in “Good Buddy”

In today’s episode, we visit with Dori Ann Dupré, author of Good Buddy, a tender tale of love and family that asks the question, “What really makes a father?”

Good Buddy is a 2019 Readers' Favorite International Book Award Winner. It is a story about families, secrets, loss, life, and the special bonds that we have with our fathers, stepfathers, and surrogate fathers. This story was written for and in eternal memory of Dori’s husband who was, himself, a "good buddy."

Scott Thomson, author of Eight Days says, “This is a touching story about love and what makes a real family. It's a story about doing the right thing, healing, and second chances. It's a story about life.”

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Greta K. Kelly is (probably) not a witch, death or otherwise, but she can still be summoned with offerings of too-beautiful-to-use journals and Butterfingers candy. She currently lives in Wisconsin with her husband EJ, daughter Lorelei and a cat who may, or may not, control the weather.

THE FROZEN CROWN is Greta’s first novel.

QUEEN OF DAYS was an idea that I came up with for NaNoWriMo 2017. I’m still in the editing stages of this one and god above, I hope I’ll get the chance to share it with the world. The novel is about a group of thieves who team up with a time-eating demon to steal an ancient stone idol from their city’s governor before he can use it to resurrect a vengeful god. Its a really fun fantasy romp of a story with with comps like: The Gilded Wolves and Six of Crows.

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VOX VOMITUS: Sometimes, it's not what goes right in the writing process, it's what goes horribly wrong. Host/Gothic Horror novelist Jennifer Anne Gordon (with help from co-hosts/authors Allison Martine and Trisha Mckee) chat with some of the best authors of the day.

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A treasure trove of resources for authors from John A. Hoda, life-long investigator who told friends and family stories about his real-life cases for years. Like many of us, John  got the writing bug later in life and has become one of the most prolific storytellers active today. He has written 10 books in the last three years. He still keeps his hand in his former life, as a coach for fledgling Private Investigators and an author of a series of non-fiction books that teach would be investigators about the skill sets they need to be successful.

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Liz Milliron, the author of The Stories We Tell, joins me in the Corner to chat about female private eyes, the World War II homefront, and Buffalo, New York. She also chats about her Laurel Highlands mystery series. Tune in to hear how modern-day rural Pennsylvania differs from 1940s upstate New York.

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Point of view is the most basic building block for story tellers. And it's often the misunderstood. In her book "Who Says?" Professor Lisa Zeidner achieves the improbable. She's created a writer's how-to book that is also an addicting page tuner. Author Percival Everett calls Who Says?, "wonderfully accessible, a helpful text for any writer at any.." career stage. Author Anne Paker calls it an "indispensable guide for writers of all levels." And Kirkus concludes with its usual succinctness that Who Says? is, "An engaging and well-informed writing companion…a thorough, practical guide."

Lisa is the author of five novels, most recently Love Bomb, and two books of poems. She is also a screenwriter. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, Salon, just to name drop a few. She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers–Camden and lives in Cherry Hill, NJ.

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