Compiled and Edited by Frederic Hunter
This volume contains more than 65 selections from the Christian Science Monitor's Home Forum, a unique institution in daily American journalism. Most of the selections are personal essays, some very funny, others certain to tug at the reader's heart.
The selections provide a tour of the world from the perspective of unusual people writing about it as they experience it. A young Indian writes about the preoccupation of his
A timeless collection of essays and poems from the Home Forum Page of The Christian Science Monitor.
Including selections by:
- Christopher Andreae
- David Mazel
- Paul Theroux
- Virginia Graham
- Neil Millar
- John Gould
- Paul O. Williams
- Guernsey LePelly
- Barbara Tuchman
- Jamake Highwater
"Even when I was a child, I wrote. I kept in notebooks an account, every day, of the things I'd seen that helped the world, like trees and sky - by lifting - and of the thinkgs that tried in vain to spoil the world, like long distances and dark stairs - by scaring.
"I still have those notebooks, Papa. Most of the penciled, printed words have resisted time's invisible eraser, and I can still make out the doodles I sometimes drew in the margins, where a whimsical part of me always felt free. When I reread the old notebooks I know that remembering and discovering are one and the same..."
From A Home Form Reader
excerpt from "A Letter to My Father"
by David Mazel