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Body My Life in Parts by Nina B. Lichtenstein

The Mother of All Decisions by Besty Armstrong

Meme's Famous Crepes by Theodore A. Perry

State of Maine State of Mind by Theodore A. Perry

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Conversation with poet and writer Cyra Sweet Dumitru who reads from her new memoir Words Make a Way Through Fire: Healing After My Brother's Suicide.

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Cyra Sweet Dumitru is a published poet, instructor of poetry, writing coach, former medical writer, and one of four certified practitioners of poetic medicine living in Texas. She served as faculty in the Department of English for 20 years at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, and developed curriculum for the Institute of Poetic Medicine as faculty for the Practitioner of Poetic Medicine training program. Her poems have appeared on the walls of San Antonio’s City Hall, on city buses, been spoken on national public radio, appeared in city newspapers and national literary journals, and been read in dozens of bookstores and museums.

Her four collections of poems include: What the Body Knows (Orchard Press), Listening to Light (River Lily Press), Remains (Pecan Grove Press) and Elder Moon (Finishing Line Press). Cyra offers therapeutic writing circles for adults learning to live creatively with trauma, bereavement, depression, and anxiety. She lives in San Antonio, Texas with her family.

Learn more about Gail Straub at her website GailStraub.com.

Order Home Inside the Globe

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Order you copy of The Perfectly Imperfect Potter. Learn more about author Nancy Collins.

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Stuff for Mainers:

Meet Nancy, check out her book and perhaps even some of her pottery at one of these October 2025 events:

Sat Oct 4 at the Windham Fall Harvest Festival

Sun Oct 19 at the Rockland Sunday Stroll

Mon Oct 20 6p at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick

Also, if you're in Maine and want to check out the often referred to "Maine Literary Salon" hosted by writer Nina Lichtenstein visit MaineWritersStudio.com or are interested in learning more about the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance visit them at MaineWriters.org.

For this episode Michelle presents the time she was the guest on a different podcast, And So, She Left. Plus, hear the "big announcement" for what's next with Daring to Tell.

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