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Pam Jenoff is with us again talking about her latest novel – The Woman with the Blue Star – Historical fiction set in Poland during WW2 “I like to tell all the stories and I like the gray areas in people. When I grew up, history was very black and white, in broad brush strokes. Read More

Music is not in the notes, but in the silence in-between.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes, and to make this muddled world, a better place for those who live in it after we are gone.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open,

It isn’t me against the world, it’s everyone working together. And not against the world either, but for each other. That was how we survived,

Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment to something better

The value of life is not measured in length but in deeds.

I want you to all just stop and think a minute – Grand – Mother. Grand – Father. Grand – Children. Those words. My favorite thing to do at church when I see one of my friends holding a grandchild is to walk up and say ‘ You know what grandchildren are? And they say “no” and I’ll say ‘God’s gift to us for getting old.’