Writing Home: Personal Essays and Newspaper Columns

This title collects inspirational essays and articles from well-loved local journalist Cindy La Ferle. Cindy La Ferle has written for years about finding the sacred in the suburban and struggling to fit the pieces of life together.Both a ‘motherhood memoir’ and a handbook for living, Writing Home is a heartwarming anthology of domestic essays and lifestyle columns by award-winning journalist Cindy La Ferle. Her essays address such key issues as losing a parent, aging gracefully, reinventing family traditions, facing the empty nest, and finding deeper meaning in the small but defining moments of everyday life. Writing Home has won four awards for creative nonfiction, including one from the Midwest Independent Publisher’s Association and another from Writer’s Digest . Think Club Publications voted Writing Home Book of the Year in 2005, praising it for its values-driven content. Midwest Book Review describes Cindy La Ferle’s essays as ‘little gems of wisdom from a modern working woman who has a valuable and interesting philosophy on life.’ The book has been featured on Sirius Radio and in other national media.