A riveting account of life, love, sex, and humor after a cancer diagnosis.After finding a lump in her breast, haveing it removed, and then recieving the dreaded phone call, Claudia Sternbach found that life does go on.While balancing treatment with car pools, Sternbach allows us into her homeand makes us part of her family. At no time does she try to convince us that cancer is a "gift." But in this very personal journal she dicovers that the gift is a life fully lived. Anyone who has faced challenges, health or otherwise, will benefit from reading this journal. anyone who has tried to give support to a friend or family member in crisis will learn from this honestly written story of a woman whose life takes a sudden and unexpected turn. Even those simply looking for a "good read" will get caught up in Sternbach's story.

Now Breathe: A Journal of Life After a Cancer Diagnosis

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Sternbach, Claudia

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Whit Pr

Kisses, even the ones that don’t happen, can be the trace of what’s constant when life changes. In childhood, when what seems to define everything is competitionfor style, for knowing, for experiencea kiss is the first first. When a girl’s father moves out and chooses a new family, a kiss on the head from him may be the trace of constancy that she wants most. Later, such things take on a different flavor. Sometimes the kiss she wants doesn’t come. Sometimes the one she wouldn’t have is forced upon her. From time to time, the one she has kissed before is lost to her. Some kisses are final. When things are most hectic a kiss can be a celebration. And when circumstances grow threateningto a woman, her family, her sistera kiss becomes the reassertion of the most vital connections. The rich story in these essays rings with good humor and with moving wistfulness. Throughout, Sternbach maintains a perfect balance between them as her story moves from the bittersweet desires of childhood on through loss and love. Reading Lips is the tale of one woman who is just trying to get life right.

Reading Lips: A Memoir of Kisses

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Unbridled Books

Dear Goldie Hawn, Dear Leonard Cohen

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Unruly Voices

After suffering a devastating loss, Claudia writes letters to family and friends, the famous and the infamous, as a means to explore the events in her own life and find meaning in human connections.In this third memoir by Claudia Sternbach, she once again knits together fragments - this time using letters written to the likes of Goldie Hawn, Leonard Cohen, Vermeer, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and more - to shape a story of a woman attempting to make sense of the life she is living and those who have been a part of it - knowingly or not.Her letters show us that we are all connected even by the thinnest of threads, that exploring those connections helps give shape and understanding to our past, and shines a light on what the future may hold.In a time where emails are thought of as too time-consuming, and text messages seem to be our main way of communicating, Sternbach reminds us that the art of letter writing should not be tossed aside so quickly.

Parenting & Relationships

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